Rethinking Rural Literacies

Transnational Perspectives
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-27548-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 295 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4876 g

The chapters in this international collection investigate a wide range of theorizations of rurality and literacy; literate practices and pedagogies; questions of place, space, and sustainability; and representations of rurality that challenge simplistic conceptions of standardized literacy and the real-and-imagined world beyond the metropolis.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Corbett, Michael

Green, B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Kate Cairns, University of Toronto, Canada
Barbara Comber, Queensland Institute of Technology, Australia
Phillip Cormack, University of South Australia, Australia
Kim Donehower, University of North Dakota, USA
Karen Eppley, Penn State Altoona, USA
Kathryn Hibbert, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Craig B. Howley, Ohio University, USA
Ursula A. Kelly, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Lyn Kerkham, University of South Australia
Maija Lanas, University of Oulu, Faculty of Education, Finland
Pauliina Rautio, University of Helsinki, Finland
Jo-Anne Reid, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia
Margaret Somerville, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Anne Vibert, Acadia University, Canada