Rethinking Rural Literacies: Transnational Perspectives [Hardcover]

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.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

I found a great deal to think about as a result of reading the thought-provoking essays in Rethinking Rural Literacies. The editors and contributors offer what I regard as a new space to consider where anl“A