Constructing "The Rural School Problem": A Century of Rurality and Rural Education Research

Autor/inn/en	Biddle, Catharine; Azano, Amy Price
Titel	Constructing "The Rural School Problem": A Century of Rurality and Rural Education Research
Quelle	(2016), (46 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Rural Schools; Rural Education; Educational Research; Rural Population; Migration; Economic Change; Social Change; Educational Change; Teacher Education; Teacher Persistence; Teacher Recruitment; Journal Articles; United States History; Educational History; Rural Economics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Landbevölkerung; Ökonomischer Wandel; Sozialer Wandel; Bildungsreform; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Lehrerrekrutierung; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte
Abstract	We examine 100 years of rural education research within the context of the demographic, migratory, economic, and social changes that have affected rural America in the past century. We use systematic review of the literature on rural teacher recruitment, retention, and training as a case study for looking at the constancy and change in the construction of "the rural school problem," a concept drawn from early work on this topic by urban educational reformers, throughout the last 100 years. We find that attention to rurality as a factor affecting education boomed in the first half of the 20th century thanks to early 20th century commitments to American modernity, waning in the second half of the 20th century when this modernity was believed to have been more or less achieved. Neoliberal economic policies and the precariousness of rural economies revived interest in the resilience and adaptability of rural America, however, leading to a renaissance in rural education research, but largely restricted to a few sub-field journals. We discuss the implications of these changes for the future of rural education research, including the use of place and space as a lens for thinking about education. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01