Rethinking Rural Literacies

Kate Cairns, University of Toronto, CanadaBarbara Comber, Queensland Institute of Technology, AustraliaPhillip Cormack, University of South Australia, AustraliaKim Donehower, University of North Dakota, USAKaren Eppley, Penn State Altoona, USAKathryn Hibbert, University of Western Ontario, CanadaCraig B. Howley, Ohio University, USAUrsula A. Kelly, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, CanadaLyn Kerkham, University of South AustraliaMaija Lanas, University of Oulu, Faculty of Education, FinlandPauliina Rautio, University of Helsinki, FinlandJo-Anne Reid, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, AustraliaMargaret Somerville, University of Western Sydney, AustraliaAnne Vibert, Acadia University, Canada

"I found a great deal to think about as a result of reading the thought-provoking essays in Rethinking Rural Literacies. The editors and contributors offer what I regard as a new space to consider where and how education occurs. I recommend this book to researchers and practitioners working in rural studies, but also those who appreciate the idea that we all teach, research and live somewhere. The essays in it are likely to inspire many new studies and new questions related to place-conscious education: in other rural contexts, 'downtown', by the side of the road, in high-density housing, and in relation to the place of physical location and online communities. The essays are provocative, reflexive, and truly offer a rethinking of rural literacies." - Claudia Mitchell, James McGill Professor, McGill University, Canada, and Honorary Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa "Rethinking Rural Literacies makes multiple important conceptual and scholarly contributions in exploring a variety of issues that lie at the nexus of literacy, rurality and education. Green and Corbett's volume represents an excellent and essential complement to existing work in the field." - Kai A. Schafft, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA, and Editor, Journal of Research in Rural Education "This collection is much needed. It will be immensely useful, bridging conceptual and actual sites and spaces with global reach but offering a respectful attention to the sometimes-forgotten literacies of the rural, locating and describing that field more clearly, and drawing on contemporary theory and practice in literacy studies." - Kate Pahl, Reader in Literacies in Education, The University of Sheffield, UK

• PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING RURAL LITERACIES 1. Literacy, Rurality, Education: A Partial Mapping; Bill Green 2. Why not at school? Rural Literacies and the Continual Choice to Stay; Kim Donehower 3. Find Yourself in Newfoundland and Labrador: Reading Rurality as Reparation; Ursula Kelly 4. My Roots Dip Deep: Literacy Practices as Mirrors of Traditional, Modern and Postmodern Ruralities; Karen Eppley 5. Another Way to Read 'The Rural': A Bricolage of Maths Education; Craig Howley PART II: LITERACY/PEDAGOGIES 6. Exploring Rurality, Teaching Literacy: How Teachers Manage a Curricular Relation to Place; Phillip Cormack 7. Rural Boys, Literacy Practice, and the Possibilities of Difference: Tales Out of School; Jo-Anne Reid 8. Reconfiguring the Communicational Landscape: Implications for Rural Literacy; Kathryn Hibbert PART III: PLACE AND SUSTAINABILITY 9. Thinking through Country: New Literacy Practices for a Sustainable World; Margaret Somerville 10. Literacy, Place-based Pedagogies and Social Justice; Lyn Kerkham and Barbara Comber 11. The Making of 'Good-Enough' Everyday Lives: Literacy Lessons from the Rural North of Finland; Pauliina Rautio and Maija Lanas PART IV: MOBILITIES AND FUTURES 12. Reading Futures: Exploring Rural Students' Literacy Practices in Neo-liberal Times; Kate Cairns 13. Mediating Plastic Literacies and Placeless Governmentalities: Returning to Corporeal Rurality; Michael Corbett and Ann Vibert