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Author:   B. Green ,  Michael Corbett
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.876kg
ISBN:  

9781137275486

ISBN 10:   1137275480
Pages:   295
Publication Date:   14 June 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING RURAL LITERACIES 1. Literacy, Rurality, Education: A Partial Mapping; Bill Green 2. Why not at school? Rural Literacies and the Continual Choice to Stay; Kim Donehower 3. Find Yourself in Newfoundland and Labrador: Reading Rurality as Reparation; Ursula Kelly 4. My Roots Dip Deep: Literacy Practices as Mirrors of Traditional, Modern and Postmodern Ruralities; Karen Eppley 5. Another Way to Read 'The Rural': A Bricolage of Maths Education; Craig Howley PART II: LITERACY/PEDAGOGIES 6. Exploring Rurality, Teaching Literacy: How Teachers Manage a Curricular Relation to Place; Phillip Cormack 7. Rural Boys, Literacy Practice, and the Possibilities of Difference: Tales Out of School; Jo-Anne Reid 8. Reconfiguring the Communicational Landscape: Implications for Rural Literacy; Kathryn Hibbert PART III: PLACE AND SUSTAINABILITY 9. Thinking through Country: New Literacy Practices for a Sustainable World; Margaret Somerville 10. Literacy, Place-based Pedagogies and Social Justice; Lyn Kerkham and Barbara Comber 11. The Making of 'Good-Enough' Everyday Lives: Literacy Lessons from the Rural North of Finland; Pauliina Rautio and Maija Lanas PART IV: MOBILITIES AND FUTURES 12. Reading Futures: Exploring Rural Students' Literacy Practices in Neo-liberal Times; Kate Cairns 13. Mediating Plastic Literacies and Placeless Governmentalities: Returning to Corporeal Rurality; Michael Corbett and Ann Vibert

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Kate Cairns, University of Toronto, Canada Barbara Comber, Queensland Institute of Technology, Australia Phillip Cormack, University of South Australia, Australia Kim Donehower, University of North Dakota, USA Karen Eppley, Penn State Altoona, USA Kathryn Hibbert, University of Western Ontario, Canada Craig B. Howley, Ohio University, USA Ursula A. Kelly, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Lyn Kerkham, University of South Australia Maija Lanas, University of Oulu, Faculty of Education, Finland Pauliina Rautio, University of Helsinki, Finland Jo-Anne Reid, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia Margaret Somerville, University of Western Sydney, Australia Anne Vibert, Acadia University, Canada

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