Young people's life and schooling in rural areas - Couverture souple

Ohrn, Elisabet; Beach, Dennis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1872767745 ISBN 13 : 9781872767741

Editeur : Tufnell Press, 2019

Synopsis

This book takes as a starting point the dominance of urban studies in educational research and the metrocentricity that operates nationally and internationally in relation to educational policy making. Through ethnography it identifies, explores, describes and analyses important dimensions of education justice, inclusion and equity in relation to rural educational experiences in the educational system of Sweden. There were seriously good reasons for undertaking this project. Rural-urban disparities in Sweden, as in many other countries, have been somewhat of a blackspotone that seems to have both diversified and expanded in recent decades. Schools are often fighting to survive in rural areas which are losing value in terms of wealth and cultural capital and rather than offering a route to social mobility and equality, they risk reproducing inequality and future life difficulties. Collectively the chapters of the book make a number of important points concerning these issues. First, there are distinctive differences between various types of rural area, their education, and the responses and resistance to the present situation by those living there. But, second, despite these differences we can still point to consistent patterns. Third is the issue of mobility into and between rural areas. Different social groups and places have different and distinct mobility forms and patterns, and educational availabilities are amongst the factors involved. Some are effectively imprisoned in their now increasingly depleted areas and experience intense alienation and flight instincts. Fourth, the introduction of market politics is also an important contextual feature in rural education and school experiences. This travelling package of metro-centric policies cuts very differently in rural areas compared with urban, as it also does in respect of rural towns compared with other kinds of rural area.

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À propos des auteurs

Professor, Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg. Her research focuses on power processes and democratic participation, and gendered and classed relations at different levels of education. This includes studies of sub/urban schooling, the importance of local context for relations in school, patterns of segregation, and young people's understandings of power and how they would act to create change. These issues are also central to the research group which I am part of (PAGE - Power and AGency in Education).

Professor of Education at the Department of Education and Special Education at the University of Gothenburg, and the Academy of Library, Information and Educational Science and IT at the University of Borås. Together with Professor Elisabet Öhrn he is involved as co-applicant and co-leader on a project examining aspects of rurality and education policy in Sweden; and he is also independently conducting meta-ethnographic analyses concerning educational justice and marginalisation in relation to transnationalist identity and global diaspora

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Tufnell Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1872767745
• ISBN 13: 9781872767741
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 162
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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