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Monday, November 21, 2005

 

"Must Reads" in Rural Education

Last week a message was sent out over the Rural Education SIG's listserve asking people for their two or three "must reads" in rural education. Thanks to Paul Theobald, Craig Howley, Gene Davis, Jerry Horn, and Kai Schafft for sharing their thoughts...

Cubberley, E. (1922). Rural life and education: A study of the rural-school problem as a phase of the rural-life problem. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

DeYoung, Alan. (1995). The Life and Death of a Rural American High School: Farewell Little Kanawha. New York: Garland Publishing.

Duncan, Cynthia M. (1999). Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persist in Rural America. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.

Friedman Thomas L. (2005). The world if flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Girouz.

Merz, C., & Furman, G. C. (1997). Community and schools: Promise and paradox. New York: Teachers College Press.

Nachtigal, Paul. (1982). Rural Education: In Search of A Better Way. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

Peshkin, Alan. (1978). Growing up American: Schooling and the survival of community. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.

Scott, James C. (1998). Seeing Like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St). New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.

Sher, Jonathon P. (1977). Education in Rural America: A Reassessment of Conventional Wisdom. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.

Starratt, R. J. (2002). Community as curriculum. In K. Leithwood & P. Hallinger (Eds.) Second international handbook of educational leadership and administration (pp. 321-48). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Theobald, Paul. (1997). Teaching the commons. Boulder, Colorado: Westview.

Tyack, D. B. (1972). The tribe and the common school: Community control in rural education. American Quarterly, 24(1), 3-19.

So, that's what we had suggested... Any you'd like to add? Just comment below...

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