1st Edition
Literacy Teaching and Learning in Rural Communities Problematizing Stereotypes, Challenging Myths
Foreword
Preface
1 Introduction: Literacy Teaching and Learning in Rural Communities: Problematizing Stereotypes, Challenging Myths
Lisa Schade Eckert and Janet Alsup
Part I
2 From Stranger to Native: Early Career Teacher Narratives
Lisa Schade Eckert and Janet Alsup
3 A Rural Education: From Stranger to Strangerer
Taylor Norman
4 Crossing the Tracks, or The Bacon of Despair: The Story of One Teacher’s Story . . . of One Teacher’s Story . . . of Teaching in a Rural School
Jeff Spanke
5 Falling Through the Rabbit Hole and Teaching Through the Looking Glass: Experiences of a New Teacher in a Rural School
Kendra McPheeters-Neal
6 Is There Such a Thing as Caring Too Much? A Farm Girl Swims with Sharks
Chea Parton
Part II
7 Teaching Through Place: Mid to Late Career Teacher Narratives
Lisa Schade Eckert and Janet Alsup
8 Lessons From the Inside Out: Poetry, Epiphanies, and Creative Literary Culture in a Rural Montana High School
Jeffrey B. Ross
9 Bridging Divides Through Place-based Research, Or What I Didn’t Know about Hunting in the Northern Rockies
Hali Kirby-Ertel
10 Whose Kids Are They, Anyway? Balancing Personal and Professional Identities in a Rural School
Kari Patterson
11 Teaching and Learning at Nay Ah Shing School
Gregg Rutter, Roger Nieboer, Govinda Budrow, Bambi O’Hern
12 Teaching in my Own Voice: A 30-year Pedagogical Journey
Sharon Bishop
Contributors
Index
Biography
Lisa Schade Eckert is Associate Professor of English at Northern Michigan University, USA.
Janet Alsup is Professor of English Education at the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, Purdue University, USA.
"This book provides a clear and compelling window into the realities of rural teaching. The writers make it possible to imagine rural teaching as a rewarding professional career. I wish I’d had this book when I was a young teacher!"
Robert Brooke, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA
