Learning to Leave

The Irony of Schooling in a Coastal Community

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Published with a new preface, this innovative case study from Nova Scotia analyzes the relationship between rural communities and contemporary education. Rather than supporting place-sensitive curricula and establishing networks within community populations, the rural school has too often stood apart from local life, with the generally unintended consequence that many educationally successful rural youth come to see their communities and lifestyles as places to be left behind. They face what Michael Corbett calls a mobility imperative, which, he shows, has been central to contemporary schooling. Learning to Leave argues that if education is to be democratic and serve the purpose of economic, social, and cultural development, then it must adapt and respond to the specificity of its locale, the knowledge practices of the people, and the needs of those who struggle to remain in challenged rural places.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-06-11
Mått152 x 244 x 20 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRural Studies
Antal sidor309
FörlagWest Virginia University Press
ISBN9781949199536

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Preface to the 2020 EditionForewordAcknowledgmentChapter 1IntroductionMigration and Regional Dependency: The Brain DrainThe Migration Imperative in Rural EducationChallenges to the Migration Imperative in Rural SchoolingWhy Would Young People Stay?Schooling and Migration in Atlantic CanadaNotesChapter 2Reconceptualizing ResistanceHabitus, Discourse and PlaceResistance Theory in the Sociology of EducationBourdieu's Logic of PracticePoststructural Resistance TheoryResistance and CommunityRural Identity PoliticsThe Organized Rural Community as a Resistant SiteConclusion: To Choose and to MoveNotesChapter 3Who Stays, Who Goes and WhereEducation and Migration on Digby Neck, 1963-1998The EconomyEducation LevelsMobilityThe Education/Mobility ConnectionSummaryNotesChapter 4Parallel Education SystemsThe Classes of 1963-1974Family and Work: An Education for StayingThe Hand on the Shoulder: Socialization for LeavingFormal Education: Streaming for Leavingin the 1960s and early 1970sLearning to Do: The Construction of Intelligenceand Identity in a Coastal CommunityThey Wanted Me to Go to School: Schooling, Identity and FamilyLeaving Home: Education and Occupational PioneeringI Didn't Want to End UpResisting DisplacementConclusionNotesChapter 5The Boom YearsThe Classes of 1975-1986Gender, Work and SchoolingDefining Security: Education, Identity and WorkFamily/ClassThe Mobile FamilyBecoming a StrangerConclusionNotesChapter 6Surviving the CrisisThe Classes of 1987-1998What Is There For the Young Ones?Quitting in the 1990s: Finding Something toDo When There's Nothing to DoThe New Reserve Army of LabourGetting Out: Class, Gender and EducationSurvival and FamilyBack to the Future: Surviving in the New EconomyResistanceConclusion: The Mobile Discourse of SchoolingNotesChapter 7ConclusionPlace MattersMigration, Education and Ambivalence: Mobility CapitalAmbiguity, Mobility and ResistanceResistancesRural Schooling and CommunityNotesReferencesIndex