Literacy Teaching and Learning in Rural Communities

Lisa Schade Eckert is Associate Professor of English at Northern Michigan University, USA.Janet Alsup is Professor of English Education at the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, Purdue University, USA.

"This book provides a clear and compelling window into the realities of rural teaching. The writers make it possible to imagine rural teaching as a rewarding professional career. I wish I’d had this book when I was a young teacher!"Robert Brooke, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA

• ForewordPreface1 Introduction: Literacy Teaching and Learning in Rural Communities: Problematizing Stereotypes, Challenging MythsLisa Schade Eckert and Janet AlsupPart I2 From Stranger to Native: Early Career Teacher Narratives Lisa Schade Eckert and Janet Alsup3 A Rural Education: From Stranger to Strangerer Taylor Norman4 Crossing the Tracks, or The Bacon of Despair: The Story of One Teacher’s Story . . . of One Teacher’s Story . . . of Teaching in a Rural School Jeff Spanke5 Falling Through the Rabbit Hole and Teaching Through the Looking Glass: Experiences of a New Teacher in a Rural SchoolKendra McPheeters-Neal6 Is There Such a Thing as Caring Too Much? A Farm Girl Swims with SharksChea PartonPart II7 Teaching Through Place: Mid to Late Career Teacher Narratives Lisa Schade Eckert and Janet Alsup8 Lessons From the Inside Out: Poetry, Epiphanies, and Creative Literary Culture in a Rural Montana High School Jeffrey B. Ross9 Bridging Divides Through Place-based Research, Or What I Didn’t Know about Hunting in the Northern Rockies Hali Kirby-Ertel10 Whose Kids Are They, Anyway? Balancing Personal and Professional Identities in a Rural School Kari Patterson 11 Teaching and Learning at Nay Ah Shing SchoolGregg Rutter, Roger Nieboer, Govinda Budrow, Bambi O’Hern12 Teaching in my Own Voice: A 30-year Pedagogical JourneySharon Bishop ContributorsIndex