Rural Education for the Twenty-First Century: Identity, Place, and Community in a Globalizing World

by Alecia Youngblood Jackson

Book Overview

Rural places and their schools have a long history of community-based traditions, political and cultural conservatism, and intergenerational construction of local and community identity. However, the face of rural communities, both in the U.S. and abroad, is being radically transformed by the economic effects of multinational free trade agreements, the proliferation of mass media and information technology, and educational reforms such as No Child...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271036826
• ISBN13: 9780271036823
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"