Forgotten Places: Critical Studies in Rural Education

by Shirley R. Steinberg (Editor), William M. Reynolds (Editor)

Overview

Forgotten Places: Critical Studies in Rural Education critically investigates and informs the construction of the rural, rural identity and the understanding of the rural internationally. This book promotes and expands the notion of critical understandings of rural education, particularly in the areas of race, class, gender, and LGBTQ, with conceptualizations of social justice. While there have been many volumes written on critical issues in urban education, only a small number have been produced on rural education, and the majority of those are not critical. By contrast, Forgotten Places not only discusses "schools in the country," but also expands conceptualizations of the rural beyond schools and place as well as beyond the borders of the United States. It also tackles the artificial duality between conceptualizations of urban and rural. Forgotten Places includes scholarly investigations into the connections among the symbolic order, various forms of cultural artifacts and multiple readings of these artifacts within the context of critical/transformational pedagogy. This book fills a significant gap in the scholarly work on the ramifications of the rural.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433130700
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	08/04/2017
Series:	Counterpoints: Studies in Criticality , #494
Edition description:	New
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

William M. Reynolds received his Ed.D. in curriculum theory from the University of Rochester. Dr. Reynolds teaches in the Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading at Georgia Southern University. He has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited numerous books, including Expanding Curriculum Theory: Dispositions and Lines of Flight (second edition, 2016), Practicing Critical Pedagogy: The Influences of Joe L. Kincheloe (2016), Critical Studies of Southern Place: A Reader (2014) and A Curriculum of Place: Understandings Emerging through the Southern Mist (2013). He has also published numerous articles and chapters on issues of curriculum, critical pedagogy, politics and cultural studies.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations – Acknowledgements – Shirley Steinberg: Foreword: Rural Tourist – William M. Reynolds: Introduction: Forgotten Places in the New Gilded Age of Greed and Insensitivity – Kelsey Dayle John/Derek R. Ford: The Rural is nowhere: Bringing Indigeneity and urbanism into educational research – Paul L. Thomas: Teaching against Provincialism in the Conservative, Anti-Intellectual Rural South – William M. Reynolds: Rural Place: Media, Violent Cartographies, and Chaotic Disruptions – Jennifer A. Beech/Matthew Guy: Fat Guys in the Woods Naked and Afraid: Rural Reality Television as Prep-School for a Post-Apocalyptic World – Michael Boyer: Finding Jesus: Schooling in the Age of Mass Surveillance – Frank Bird III: Foxfire: Educational deliverance in the Land of Deliverance – Robert Lake/Andy Blunden: Myles Horton and Highlander Folk School: An Enduring Exemplar of Rural Education for Democratic Engagement – Faith Agostinone-Wilson: The Liberatory Potential and Constraint of Working-Class Rural Women’s Gender Roles within the United States – Todd Alan Price: Rural Spaces of Longing and Protest – Priya Parmar: Who Am I? : Cultural Identity in Rural Schools – Reta Ugena Whitlock: A Memoir of Littleville School: Identity, Community, and Rural Education in a Curriculum Study of Rural Place – Randy Hewitt: Nowhere to Somewhere – Derrick M. Tennial: Liberatory Consequences of Sharecropping and Rural Education in the South – Daniel R. Paulson: Rural Education in Wisconsin – Bevin Etheridge: Rural in a Different Caye: Listening to Early School Leavers About the Importance of Place – Jennifer Job/Kristi Dickey/Susan Kirk/Justin McCrackin/Gina Morris: Dumbing Down the Fly-Over State: The Scape-Goating of Education in Oklahoma – Rebekah Cordova/Erin Bowers: "It was the river that taught me …": The Southern rural ecology as educative space – Mark Helmsing: A small town with long roads: Wyoming as a Post-Western curriculum – Jon Austin/Amelia Jenkins: Reconstructing the deficit discourse in a multi-remote school in far North Queensland – Eleanor J. Blair: Teaching in the Country: A Critical Analysis of the Experiences of Rural Teachers in the United States and Jamaica – Mark Vicars: Learning from the Margins: A Case of Critical Community Pedagogy in Rural Thailand – Contributors.