Rethinking Rural Literacies: Transnational Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Rural Education and Literacies: An Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Literacy, Rurality, Education: A Partial Mapping....Pages 17-34
Why Not at School? Rural Literacies and the Continual Choice to Stay....Pages 35-51
Find Yourself in Newfoundland and Labrador: Reading Rurality as Reparation....Pages 53-73
My Roots Dip Deep: Literacy Practices as Mirrors of Traditional, Modern, and Postmodern Ruralities....Pages 75-92
Another Way to Read “The Rural”: A Bricolage of Maths Education....Pages 93-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Exploring Rurality, Teaching Literacy: How Teachers Manage a Curricular Relation to Place....Pages 115-133
Rural Boys, Literacy Practice, and the Possibilities of Difference: Tales Out of School....Pages 135-153
Reconfiguring the Communicational Landscape: Implications for Rural Literacy....Pages 155-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Thinking through Country: New Literacy Practices for a Sustainable World....Pages 179-196
Literacy, Place-Based Pedagogies, and Social Justice....Pages 197-217
The Making of “Good-Enough” Everyday Lives: Literacy Lessons from the Rural North of Finland....Pages 219-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Reading Futures: Exploring Rural Students’ Literacy Practices in Neoliberal Times....Pages 241-256
Mediating Plastic Literacies and Placeless Governmentalities: Returning to Corporeal Rurality....Pages 257-274
Back Matter....Pages 275-295