The Coming Vitality of Rural Places

Year 2013, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 51 - 64, 01.04.2013

Craig B. Howley

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The Coming Vitality of Rural Places

Abstract

In many parts of the world, whether “developing” or “developed,” the concept of a rural sort of education is largely ignored by national ministries. The United States is just one notable example of silence at the bureaucratic center, despite scholarly interest in provincial universities. The future may change the “terms of engagement,” however, and this essay considers the leadership of rural schools and communities from the vantage of the daunting, but clearly visible, challenges of the future. The challenges described in the essay relate to a variety of visible, perhaps even familiar, economic, environmental, political, and cultural threats confronting life in the coming century. Though increasingly important and relevant to education, these threats are not a common part of discussions in education policy. The essay explains why, and why the threats are important to rural villages and districts. Discussion concludes with five rurally appropriate shifts of thinking that might help rural citizens and subjects around the world engage the challenges and counter the threats

Keywords

Rural education, Rural communities, Urban to rural migration, Teacher leadership, Education policy, Transformational leadership

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• Atıf için / Please cite as: Howley, C. B. (2013). The coming vitality of rural places. Eğitim Bilimleri Araştırmaları Dergisi Journal of Educational Sciences Research, 3 (1), 51–64. http://ebad-jesr.com/