Full Description
This edited collection challenges the urban-centric nature of much feminist work on gender and education. The context for the book is the radical reconfiguration of rural areas that has occurred in recent decades as a result of globalisation. From a range of diverse national contexts, including Kenya and South Africa, Australia and Canada, and the United States and Pakistan, authors explore the intersections between masculinity, femininity, and rurality in education. In recognition of the heterogeneity of categories such as 'rural girl' and 'rural boy' they attend to how educational exclusions can be magnified by differences in relation to social locations such as class, race, or sexuality. Similar critical insights are brought to bear as authors examine what it means to be a male or female teacher in rural environments. Contributors draw on data ranging from contemporary feature films to historical materials, along with detailed ethnographic work and participatory approaches, to produce a compelling narrative of the need to understand education as experienced by those who are not part of the urban majority. This book was originally published as a special issue of Gender and Education.
Contents
Introduction - Education and the global rural: Feminist perspectives 1. 'They are not serious like the boys': gender norms and contradictions for girls in rural Kenya 2. Both here and elsewhere: rural girls' contradictory visions of the future 3. Race, rurality and representation: Black and minority ethnic mothers' experiences of their children's education in rural primary schools in England, UK 4. Educational outcomes across the generational and gender divide: the rural family habitus of Pakistani families living in poverty 5. Betsey Holsbery's school: place, gender, and memory 6. 'You must be thinking what a lesbian man teacher is doing in a nice place like Dipane Letsie School?': enacting, negotiating and reproducing dominant understandings of gender in a rural school in the Free State, South Africa 7. Re-imagining the (un)familiar: feminist pedagogy in rural spaces 8. From the frozen wilderness to the moody sea: rural space, girlhood and popular pedagogy 9. Building a future without gender violence: rural teachers and youth in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, leading community dialogue
