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Making a Positive Impact in Rural Places: Change Agency in the Context of School-University-Community Collaboration in Education

Making a Positive Impact in Rural Places: Change Agency in the Context of School-University-Community Collaboration in Education

Reardon, R. Martin
Leonard, Jack

Hardcover

Series: Current Perspectives on School/University/Community Research

General EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 1641132221
ISBN13: 9781641132220
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Published: Mar 16 2018
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Following on from the preceding volume in this series that focused on innovation and implementation in the context of school-university-community collaborations in rural places, this volume explores the positive impact of such collaborations in rural places, focusing specifically on the change agency of such collaborations. The relentless demand of urban places in general for the food and resources (e.g., mineral and energy resources) originating in rural places tends to overshadow the impact of the inevitable changes wrought by increasing efficiency in the supply chain. Youth brought-up in rural places tend to gravitate to urban places for higher education and employment, social interaction and cultural affordances, and only some of them return to enrich their places of origin. On one hand, the outcome of the arguable predominance of more populated areas in the national consciousness has been described as urbanormativity--a sense that what happens in urban areas is the norm. By implication, rural areas strive to approach the norm. On the other hand, a mythology of rural places as repositories of traditional values, while flattering, fails to take into account the inherent complexities of the rural context.

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