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Azano, Amy Price; Biddle, Catharine – Rural Educator, 2019
This article highlights various paradoxes and false dichotomies in rural education research. Using Paulo Freire's theories of oppression and critical awareness, the article delineates a theoretical framework designed to explore a reframing of rural education. We propose that this reframing would serve as rural praxis for school leaders and…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Educational Policy, Educational Research
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Cunha de Araujo, Gustavo – European Journal of Training and Development, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to provide an overview of an expanded, workable conception of rural youth and adult education that will move Brazil closer to a fair, egalitarian society focused on human development. Design/methodology/approach: This research uses a qualitative bibliographic perspective, analyzing historical data extracted from…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Youth, Rural Areas, Adults
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Means, Darris R.; Blackmon, Sydney; Drake, Elizabeth; Lawrence, Paris; Jackson, Angel; Strickland, Anna; Willis, Jenay – Rural Educator, 2020
The purpose of this article is to highlight a critical approach for practice, youth participatory action research, that can be used to invite rural youth to collaborate with school administrators, educators, and community leaders to identify and examine challenges, while building upon the strengths of a school and community to address challenges.…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Participatory Research, Action Research, High School Students
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Koricich, Andrew; Chen, Xi; Hughes, Rodney P. – Review of Higher Education, 2018
This study seeks to update past studies of rural youth by examining college attendance and choice decisions for students who graduated from rural high schools, while also conducting an examination of how the effects of socioeconomic status manifest differently by locale. Logistic regression is used to study the postsecondary attendance and…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Socioeconomic Status, College Attendance, School Choice
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Corbett, Michael – Peabody Journal of Education, 2016
This piece responds to the content of each of the articles in this issue and raises questions in response to some explicit and implicit themes including particularly the way that differently positioned rural youth are "oriented" in the course of their educational experience. These articles are read as accounts of people in place that…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Rural Education, Orientation, Rural Schools
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Corbett, Michael; Forsey, Martin – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
We argue here that critical educational scholarship is crucial to developing educational analysis attuned to the nuances of place, mobility, and change in rural locations. Critical sociological analysis, we argue, can also nuance and complicate simplistic portrayals of rural communities and their social, economic, and cultural character. Two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Rural Youth, Rural Education
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Schmitt-Wilson, Sarah; Downey, Jayne A.; Beck, Ashley E. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2018
Understanding patterns of educational attainment among rural youth is a critical concern for our nation as we seek to make postsecondary access and attainment more equitable across our increasingly diverse student population. The current study examines data collected in the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 to identify contemporary patterns of…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Educational Attainment, Context Effect, Longitudinal Studies
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Wang, Weijian – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2019
This article uses a queer lens in an intersectional analysis of students' schooling experiences in rural China. I argue that a queer perspective has been largely neglected and issues related to sexuality have not been carefully investigated in Chinese educational contexts. Drawing on queer theory and an intersectional framework, I re-interpret one…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Educational Experience, Rural Education, Homosexuality
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Schafft, Kai A. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2016
Despite the significant proportions of rural Americans, schools, and public school students situated in the geographic peripheries of an increasingly urbanizing country, rural education in the United States has consistently occupied both scholarly and policy peripheries. This is to the detriment of rural America, especially to the extent that…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Well Being, Rural Schools, Rural Development
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Odierna, Rebecca – Educational Perspectives, 2012
It was the last day of Philosophy 492, the author's college course dedicated to teaching the principles and strategies of philosophy for children (p4c) Hawai'i. Months before she joined the Philosophy 492 class, she was asked to join Emerging Humanity as a volunteer in a project that focused on enhancing the classroom environments at the…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Rural Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Lou, Jingjing – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2011
Based on an ethnographic study in a rural middle school in Northwest China, the author explores how the transition of the rural countryside, specifically townization, has challenged the urban-rural dichotomy being reproduced in and by formal schooling. Rural students express criticism of the chaos, pollution, and corruption they have experienced…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Rural Education
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McMahon, Brenda – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2015
This qualitative study of educators' understandings of resilience contributes to ongoing rural school research that examines educators' beliefs about, and attitudes toward, rural students whom are at-risk and factors that impact rural school success. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with teachers and administrators in one rural Florida…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Education, Teacher Attitudes, Resilience (Psychology)
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Taylor, Alison; Servage, Laura; Hamm, Zane – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2014
This article examines two Canadian high school work experience programs that focus on rural youth. The first encourages students to consider work in skilled trades, while the second encourages them to become qualified as healthcare aides. Both programs were designed to encourage high school students to explore careers in fields where labor market…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Work Experience Programs, Rural Education
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Alleman, Nathan F.; Holly, L. Neal – Rural Educator, 2013
Formal and informal partnerships between rural schools and their communities can provide a wide range of supports for all students, but particularly those from low-income families. In this analysis of six small rural school districts in Virginia we show how the broad participation of community groups and individuals supports academic achievement…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Low Income Groups
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Avery, Leanne M.; Kassam, Karim-Aly – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2011
This study analyzes videotaped interviews and 407 photographs taken by 20 grade 5 and 6 students in rural New York State to document their science and engineering learning. Aristotle's concept of phronesis or practical wisdom frames the findings and their implications. Key findings indicate that: (1) All 20 children found examples of science and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Engineering Education, Grade 5, Grade 6
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