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Country Teachers in City Schools: The Challenge of Negotiating Identity and Place explores what it's like to be a country teacher in a city school. Through conversations with teachers who grew up one place and ended up teaching in another, Chea Parton investigates the role of place on the personal and professional identity building of teachers as well as the way their identities influence their teaching practice. To conclude, Parton highlights important considerations for teacher education programs as they work to support and prepare teachers to be successful no matter where they land. She also provides concrete teaching strategies that classroom teachers and teacher educators can use to foster place-conscious identity work.
Contents
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Foreword by Gregory Fulkerson and Alexander Thomas
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Place, Identity, and Purpose
Chapter 2: Building (Non)Rural Identities
Chapter 3: Portraits of Complexity: Place-Connected Identity
Chapter 4: Language as Rural Identity
Chapter 5: Place and Landscape as Identity
Chapter 6: Understandings of Race and Racism in Rural Schools and Communities
Chapter 7: Place(s) as Pedagogy in the ELA Classroom
Chapter 8: Developing Place-Conscious Teachers
Chapter 9: Rural Futures and Out-Migrant Visibility
References
About the Author
