Rural Education for the Twenty-First Century

Kai A. Schafft is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Policy Studies at The Pennsylvania State University.Alecia Youngblood Jackson is Associate Professor in the Department of Leadership and Educational Studies at Appalachian State University.

“This volume is a comprehensive examination of the understudied topic of rural education. The aptly placed emphasis in each chapter on the role of globalization and demographic change in contemporary rural America brings cohesiveness to the diversity of topics. The volume will likely have broad appeal to rural scholars and social scientists both within and beyond the field of educational research.”—Julie N. Zimmerman, University of Kentucky

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Rural Education and Community in the Twenty-first CenturyKai A. Schafft and Alecia Youngblood JacksonPart 1: Spaces of Identity1. Learning to Be Rural: Identity Lessons from History, Schooling, and the U.S. Corporate MediaPaul Theobald and Kathy Wood2. Poverty and School Achievement in Rural Communities: A Social-Class InterpretationCraig B. Howley and Aimee Howley3. “The Drama of Their Daily Lives”: Racist Language and Struggles over the Local in a Rural High SchoolSusan L. Groenke and Jan Nespor4. Fields of Discourse: A Foucauldian Analysis of Schooling in a Rural, U.S. Southern TownAlecia Youngblood JacksonPart 2: Placing Education5. The Challenges of Student Transiency for Rural Schools and Communities in the Era of No Child Left BehindKai A. Schafft, Kieran M. Killeen, and John Morrissey6. Wharf Talk, Home Talk, and School Talk: The Politics of Language in a Coastal CommunityMichael Corbett7. Globalization, Asymmetric Urbanization, and Rural Disadvantage in Sub-Saharan AfricaSarah Giroux, Fatou Jah, and Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue8. Teaching School in Rural America: Toward an Educated HopeJacqueline Edmondson and Thomas ButlerPart 3: Teaching Communities9. Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities: Global Influence and Local DesignSusan C. Faircloth and John Tippeconnic III10. The Golden Cage of Rural College Access: How Higher Education Can Respond to the Rural LifePatricia M. McDonough and R. Evely Gildersleeve11. Opening Their Eyes: E-Learning for Rural and Isolated Communities in AustraliaStephen Crump and Kylie Twyford12. Advocating for English Language Learners: U.S. Teacher Leadership in Rural Texas SchoolsRebecca M. Bustamante, Genevieve Brown, and Beverly J. Irby13. Growing Up Rural and Moving Toward Family-School Partnerships: Special Educators Reflect on Biography and PlaceGretchen Butera and Lisa Humphreys CostelloConclusion: Economics, Community, and Rural Education: Rethinking the Nature of Accountability in the Twenty-first CenturyKai A. SchafftList of ContributorsIndex