Understanding Social Justice in Rural Education

• Main Author: Cuervo, Hernán (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education > Curricula.; Educational sociology.; Education > Philosophy.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Childhood.; Adolescence.; Social groups.; Sociology of Education.; Educational Philosophy.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.; International and Comparative Education.; Curriculum Studies.

This book explores what social justice looks like for rural schools in Australia. The author challenges the consensus that sees the distribution of resources as the panacea for the myriad challenges faced by rural schools and argues that the solution to inequality and injustice in rural settings has...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 – Introduction
• Chapter 2 – Understanding Rural Communities and Education
• Chapter 3 – Rural Teaching and Learning in Neoliberal Times
• Chapter 4 – The Idea of Social Justice
• Chapter 5 – Social Justice in Rural Schooling
• Chapter 6 – The Metamorphosis of Social Justice in the Present and the Future
• Chapter 7 – Discourses and Practices that Pluralize Social Justice
• Chapter 8 – Towards a Socially Just Rural Education. .