Rural Education: Some Sociological Provocations for the Field

Autor/in	Corbett, Michael
Titel	Rural Education: Some Sociological Provocations for the Field
Quelle	In: Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 25 (2015) 3, S.9-25 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1839-7387
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Rural Education; Global Approach; Educational Trends; Scholarship; Educational Research; Demography; Social Theories; Educational Sociology; Rural Schools; Neoliberalism; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Globales Denken; Bildungsentwicklung; Scholarships; Stipendium; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Demografie; Gesellschaftstheorie; Bildungssoziologie; Erziehungssoziologie; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Australien
Abstract	In this piece I raise a number of rural education issues that I think might be productively engaged through a sociological lens. The paper has developed from notes on 'international trends in rural education' for a pre conference workshop of AARE in December of 2014. My general conclusion is that the field of rural education, at least as it exists in Australia and in North America, has not yet adequately addressed problems of globalisation tending instead to operate within the space of what might be called traditional rural imaginaries. Specifically, I address a range of issues and trends that I think can engender better scholarship in the field of rural education. These issues range from problems of definition, demographics, mobilities, and geographies through to more fluid network and poststructural constructions of what constitutes rural space. Questions of power and the formation and surveillance of rural populations are also dimensions of rural education analysis that have not been given sufficient attention. My general argument is for a stronger engagement of the conceptual tools sociology and contemporary social theory in rural education scholarship. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia. P.O. Box 659, Wembly, Western Australia 6913. Tel: +08-9285-0626; e-mail: admin@spera.asn.au; Web site: http://www.spera.asn.au/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01