1st Edition

Towards Rural Education for the Common Good Resisting Capitalist and Neoliberal Priorities in Rural Schooling in the United States

By Jason A. Cervone Copyright 2023
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the current and future state of rural education in North America through the lens of Franco Berardi’s Futurability . Through critical examination of examples and current trends toward corporatization and privatization of rural education, the volume highlights how future possibilities and social imagination in rural spaces have been limited by neoliberal forces,... Read more
Introduction 1. Rural Futurability: Education for Power, Potency, and Possibility 2. Spatial Futurability: Creating Differential Rural Spaces for an Anti-Capitalist Future 3. Power: Neoliberalism and the Shaping of Rural Education 4. Potency: Transformative Change and Neoliberal Resistance in Rural Spaces 5. Possibility: Critical Education for a Rural Future Conclusion: Revisiting a Right to the Rural

Biography

Jason A. Cervone completed his PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA. He is currently the UCLA Northeast Region Project Director for UCLA Center X.