Country Teachers in City Schools - The Challenge of Negotiating Identity and Place

Country Teachers in City Schools provides insight into the experiences of rural out-migrant teachers teaching in (sub)urban schools and the impact on their practice. The author reports her findings and provides suggestions and teaching applications.

List of contents

Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Foreword by Gregory Fulkerson and Alexander Thomas
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Place, Identity, and Purpose
Chapter 2: Building (Non)Rural Identities
Chapter 3: Portraits of Complexity: Place-Connected Identity
Chapter 4: Language as Rural Identity
Chapter 5: Place and Landscape as Identity
Chapter 6: Understandings of Race and Racism in Rural Schools and Communities
Chapter 7: Place(s) as Pedagogy in the ELA Classroom
Chapter 8: Developing Place-Conscious Teachers
Chapter 9: Rural Futures and Out-Migrant Visibility
References
About the Author

About the author

By Chea Parton - Foreword by Gregory Fulkerson and Alexander Thomas

Product details

• Authors: Chea Parton
• Assisted by: Gregory Fulkerson (Foreword), Thomas Alexander (Foreword)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2023
• EAN: 9781666909012
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-901-2
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Studies in Urban-Rural Dynamics; Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Rural communities, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching skills & techniques, Urban communities, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies, Urban communities / city life, Rural communities / rural life