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Rural schooling in mobile modernity: Returning to the places I've been
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-18, 10:10 authored by Michael CorbettIn my book Learning to leave: The irony of schooling in a coastal community (Corbett, 2007) I make the claim that there is a deep and established connection between formal education and mobility out of rural areas. The book reports on a study undertaken in a coastal community in Atlantic Canada focusing on the educational and life experiences of those who persisted and those who left the community during the economic and social changes from the late 1950s to the late 1990s. The book argues that place matters in a multitude of ways despite persistent attempts to erase and neutralize its influence in educational thought, policy, pedagogical practice and curriculum. Because I want to resist the abstract academic conventions also resisted by my informants, and because I want to argue that place should occupy a more central focus in the way we think about and deliver education, this article situates my own analysis of what I think the book means in the actual places that grounded its conception
History
Publication title
Journal of research in rural educationVolume
23Issue
10Pagination
1-13ISSN
1062-4228Department/School
Faculty of EducationPublisher
University of Maine, College of Education and Human DevelopmentPlace of publication
United StatesRights statement
Copyright 2008 Journal of Research in Rural EducationRepository Status
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