The Reproduction of Rural Spaces through Education: Abstraction of the Rural and the Creation of New Differential Spaces

Autor/in	Cervone, Jason A.
Titel	The Reproduction of Rural Spaces through Education: Abstraction of the Rural and the Creation of New Differential Spaces
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 15 (2017) 4, S.427-440 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1478-2103
DOI	10.1177/1478210316688356
Schlagwörter	Rural Areas; Neoliberalism; Role of Education; Ideology; Rural Schools; Economic Factors; Outcomes of Education; Quality of Life; Consolidated Schools; School Space; Social Influences; Rural Development; Urban Areas; Youth + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Bildungsauftrag; Ideologie; Rural areas; School; Schools; Schule; Schulen; Ökonomischer Faktor; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Lebensqualität; Consolidated school; Mittelpunktschule; Zentralschule; Schulraum; Sozialer Einfluss; Rural environment; Development; Ländliches Milieu; Entwicklung; Urban area; Stadtregion; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter
Abstract	This paper examines the situating of rural communities in the United States within the neoliberal global context. It will focus on Henri Lefebvre's concept of abstract space, as well as additional theories on the ways space is produced and understood. The paper will use these theories to create an understanding of the ways rural communities are shaped and the role education plays in reproducing neoliberal ideology specifically through rural school consolidation. Abstracted rural space and schools are leading rural youth to internalize neoliberal ideology wherein they see themselves as economic actors rather than active engaged members of their community, and the best way to be successful is to gain the mobility to move to an urban center. Under this line of thought, rural exists only to serve capital as a site of resource extraction and low wage labor. The paper will conclude with a discussion on the way rural education can provide rural youth with the knowledge in which to produce rural spaces that represent what a modern rural community should be, focusing on improving the quality of life for residents, rather than what neoliberal capitalism needs it to be through the creation of common schools. This type of education can lead to the development of a right to the rural, a play off of Lefebvre's right to the city, wherein rural youth can critically examine their place and the place of rural communities in the world. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01