Critical Theory in Rural Education

1. Introduction: Rural Education at the Intersection of Power and Justice SECTION I: Place: Perspectives and Opportunities 2. RuralEdCrit: Toward a Critical Theory of Rural Education 3. Finding Commonalities, Illuminating Nuances: Using Purposeful Maximal Sampling in Critical Rural Education Research 4. ‘A lot of working parts’: Appalachian Educators Take Agency through Community and A Career Connected Learning 5. A Rural Critical Policy Analysis of Missouri Educator Preparation and Certification Regulations 6. Letting the Land Lead: Socioecological Leadership Practice Amid Policy Challenges 7. Rewriting the Narrative: Reshaping Rurality in English Language Arts Pedagogy SECTION II: Power: Race, Coloniality, and History 8. At the Educational Crossroads of Critical Race and Critical Rural Theories 9. Teaching in the Afterlife of Rural Schooling: A Black Practitioner’s Reflection on Race, Power, and Pedagogical Integrity 10. Complicating Rural: A Critical Discourse Analysis of State Social Studies Standards 11. From the Margins to Leadership: Double Consciousness as Method and Identity in Rural Education 12. Decoloniality in South Dakota Indigenous Education: Practices of Delinking and Refusal in Colonial Context SECTION III: Justice: Boundaries, Borders, and Identities 13. What is rural education anyway? Reshaping notions of rural education in the United States through the lens of spatial imaginaries 14. Be(com)ing Slantwise: Queering Rural Literacies for More Rural Trans- and Queer-Affirming Futures 15. Borderlands and Nepantla State: Latina Identity in a Predominantly White Institution in Appalachia 16. When Monolingual Frameworks Fail: Border Thinking and Linguistic Identity in Rural Schools 17. Reflections on Research: Using Critical, Asset-Based Frameworks to Study Rural College Students 18. Entre Dos Tierras, We Found Ourselves 19. In Closing: Reflections and Future Directions