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Author:   Barbara Pini (Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia) ,  Relebohile Moletsane (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Durban, South Africa) ,  Martin Mills
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138305335

ISBN 10:   1138305332
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   12 January 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction – Education and the global rural: Feminist perspectives 1. ‘They are not serious like the boys’: gender norms and contradictions for girls in rural Kenya 2. Both here and elsewhere: rural girls’ contradictory visions of the future 3. Race, rurality and representation: Black and minority ethnic mothers’ experiences of their children’s education in rural primary schools in England, UK 4. Educational outcomes across the generational and gender divide: the rural family habitus of Pakistani families living in poverty 5. Betsey Holsbery’s school: place, gender, and memory 6. ‘You must be thinking what a lesbian man teacher is doing in a nice place like Dipane Letsie School?’: enacting, negotiating and reproducing dominant understandings of gender in a rural school in the Free State, South Africa 7. Re-imagining the (un)familiar: feminist pedagogy in rural spaces 8. From the frozen wilderness to the moody sea: rural space, girlhood and popular pedagogy 9. Building a future without gender violence: rural teachers and youth in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, leading community dialogue

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Barbara Pini is a Professor of Sociology in the School of Humanities at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. She has an extensive publication record in rural studies. Her work includes the co-edited titles Transforming Gender and Class in Rural Spaces (2010), Geographies of Sexualities and Ruralities (2012), and Feminisms and Ruralities (2014). More recently she has examined representations of rural youth in documentary and feature films, and in young adult fiction. Relebohile Moletsane is Professor and John Langalibalele Dube Chair in Rural Education in the Faculty of Education, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. She has extensive experience in teaching and research in the areas of curriculum studies and gender and education, HIV and AIDS Education in diverse ‘cultural’ contexts, and girlhood studies in Southern African contexts. She is the co-editor (with Kathleen Pithouse and Claudia Mitchell) of Making Connections: Self-Study & Social Action (2009), and (with Claudia Mitchell and Ann Smith) Was it Something I Wore? Dress, Identity, and Materiality (2012). Martin Mills is a Research Professor in the School of Education at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. His research interests include social justice and education, alternative schooling, gender and education, school reform, and new pedagogies. He is President of the Australian Association for Research in Education and holds a Visiting Professorship at King’s College London, UK. His most recent book (co-authored with Glenda McGregor) is Re-engaging young people in education: learning from alternative schools (2014).

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