Handbook on Rural and Remote Education

Edited by Jerry D. Johnson, College of Education, East Carolina University and Hobart L. Harmon, College of Education, Kansas State University, USA

• Contents1 Introduction to the Handbook on rural and remote education 1Hobart L. Harmon and Jerry D. JohnsonPART I LEARNING AND TEACHING IN RURAL AND REMOTE CONTEXTS2 Situating the curriculum within the local community 13Outi Autti and Eeva Kaisa Hyry-Beihammer3 Leveraging professional development to transform curriculum leadershipin rural China 30Lei Lyu and Haijun Kang4 Foundational understandings for advancing place-based education in ruralcontexts 49Timothy G. Thomas and Hobart L. Harmon5 Education in remote village schools in Nepal: Encouraging innovation,critical thinking, and problem-solving 63Chetanath Gautam and Charles L. Lowery6 Place-attentive professional learning for rural and remote teachers 80Jayne Downey and Jennifer Luebeck7 Trauma and its impact on teaching and learning 94Maria FranklandPART II LEADING IN RURAL AND REMOTE CONTEXTS8 Experiences of principals in rural multigrade schools in South Africa 110Matshidiso J. Taole and Fulufhilo Mukhathi9 Considering ecosystems in a framework for rural principal leadership 131Thomas Butler10 Educational leadership formation for regional, rural, and remote schoolsand communities: Australia as case study 145R. John Halsey11 Educational leadership practices beneficial for indigenous education inAustralia’s regional, rural, and remote (RRR) schools 165Jim Davies12 Place-conscious education in remote Misiones, Argentina 182Charles L. Lowery and Andres Villalba13 Health and well-being of government school leaders across urban and ruralregions in Australia: Evidence from 2011 to 2020 196Mark Rahimi, Ben Arnold, Marcus Horwood and Phil Riley14 Leveraging collaboration in leading national rural education organizations 215Allen Pratt and Taylor McCabe-Juhnke15 Leading an organization for rural principals in Australia 235Brian O’Neill and Shaun KanowskiPART III LINKING EDUCATION AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT16 Rural and remote education for rural revitalization in China 250Mingkun Cui17 Public art and critical literacies of place: The case of the Petrila coal minein Romania’s Jiu Valley 264Kai A. Schafft, Iulia Salca and Emelie Peine18 Digital empowerment of rural communities through service learning inCroatia: Students’ gains and challenges 278Nives Mikelić Preradović, Marijeta Čalić and Marija Roglić19 Lifelong learning for rural adults in Thailand and Cambodia 297Somanita Kheang20 Possibilities for rural development in Poland: Lifelong learning andUniversities of the Third Age 312Renata Tomaszewska and Susan M. Yelich BinieckiPART IV INNOVATING SOLUTIONS FOR RURAL AND REMOTEEDUCATIONAL CHALLENGES21 Culturally responsive practices to support teacher collaboration in aRuralrural school in Macedonia 327Kacey L. Molloy22 Leveraging technology to support innovation in rural schools 341Zhang Jinbao23 Adult and System Self-Care Model: An innovative approach to addressingadult well-being in rural schools 356Donna Augustine-Shaw and Jessica LanePART V ENGAGING RESEARCHERS IN THE RURAL AND REMOTEEQUITY CHALLENGE24 Problematizing key constructs: Rural, diversity, equity, and place 373Hernan Cuervo25 Equity challenges of small schools in rural India 385Rashmi Diwan and Mona Sedwal26 Towards a critical rural education line of inquiry: Rural spaces as multiidentity contexts 401Ty C. McNamee, Jenay F.E. Willis and Roger Davis Jr.27 Toward (from and for) a critical rural education line of inquiry relatingto points of transition between cultural domination and communityempowerment in rural schools 419Dennis Beach and Elisabet Öhrn28 The neo-colonial dimension of educational policy in the example ofstudent school councils in special schools in Poland 434Maciej JablonskiPART VI ENVISIONING A RESEARCH AGENDA IN RURAL AND REMOTEEDUCATION29 Trends influencing the future of rural education research in the UnitedStates 451Amy Price Azano, Jamon Flowers, Maria Coady and Catharine Biddle30 Hollowing out communities: Small rural schools in Northern Ireland andthe threat of closure 463Carl Bagley and Montserrat Fargas-Malet31 Mapping a U.S. Rural college and career readiness research agenda foreducation scholars and leaders 477Phillip D. Grant and J. Kessa Roberts32 A reflection on methodological considerations in my own rural educationresearch 494Michael Corbett

‘The Handbook on Rural and Remote Education, edited by Jerry D. Johnson and Hobart L. Harmon, represents a landmark contribution to international research in rural education. [...] An essential and comprehensive resource for scholars, educators, community leaders, and policymakers,’