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From Shinjuku to River John: The neoliberal juggernaut, efficiency, and small rural schools
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posted on 2023-05-18, 15:06 authored by Michael CorbettIt may seem a bit odd to begin an article that introduces a series of pieces about small rural schools in Canada, Norway and in Australia by referring to Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station; but that is how I want to begin. Shinjuku is the world’s busiest railway station, moving approximately 3.4 million people each day through its turnstiles. I was there last summer. One of the great ironies of being a scholar of rural education is that I am able to go to major urban centres to speak about my research in small rural places. Shinjuku is a fascinating place, remarkably efficient and a feat of modern engineering. I lived for a time in a small town, rural railway station with my family in southwestern Nova Scotia. My father was a railway stationmaster, and I worked my way through university laboring on track gangs in the summers. I love trains. I’m a bit of an efficiency expert because my experience working for the Canadian National Railway trained me to think in terms of safety and efficiency.
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Publication title
Alberta Journal of Educational ResearchVolume
60Issue
4Pagination
619-628ISSN
0002-4805Department/School
Faculty of EducationPublisher
University of Alberta Faculty of EducationPlace of publication
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