1st Edition

Doing Educational Research in Rural Settings Methodological issues, international perspectives and practical solutions

Edited By Simone White, Michael Corbett Copyright 2014
234 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Doing Educational Research in Rural Settings  is a much-needed guide for educational researchers whose research interests are located outside metropolitan areas in places that are generically considered to be rural. This book is both timely and important as it takes up the key question of how to conduct educational research within and for rural communities. It explores the impact of... Read more

Introduction: Why put the ‘rural’ in research?

Part 1: Tales of the field: working with/in the rural

  1. Making sense of rural education research: art, transgression, and other acts of terroir Craig Howley and Aimee Howley
  2. Social cartography and rural education; or, researching space(s) and place(s) Bill Green and Jo-Anne Reid
  3. Theory as the source of ‘research footprint’ in rural settings Rune Kvalsund and Linda Hargreaves
  4. A trialogue about method in rural education: Experiential perspectives Pamela Bartholomaeus, John Halsey and Michael Corbett
  5. Part II: Reflexivity and standpoint

  6. Understanding ‘the community’ in rural community research Tanya Brann-Barrett
  7. Rural community research process as outcome: approaching the community Zane Hamm
  8. Researching within and for a rural community: research journey Cath Gristy
  9. A conversation about research as risky business: making visible the invisible in rural research locations Robyn Henderson and Sherilyn Lennon
  10. Researching from the standpoint of the rural Philip Roberts
  11. Part III: Ethics and reciprocity

  12. Research and remembrance in a rural community: a step toward ethical learning Linda Farr Darling
  13. Metaphors we lose by: re-thinking how we frame rural education Kim Donehower
  14. Reciprocity as relational: two examples of conducting research in Finnish Lapland Maija Lanas and Pauliina Rautio
  15. Three Rs for rural research: respect, responsibility and reciprocity Michelle Anderson and Michelle Lonsdale

Index

Biography

Simone White is Professor of Teacher Education at the Faculty of Education, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.

Michael Corbett is Professor at the School of Education, Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada.