“All of a Sudden, Rural Is on Everyone’s Mind”: Rural Education After Trump

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This interactive symposium invites participants to talk across differences regarding the explicitly political nature of teaching, learning, and research. Within a context of new political importance of rural communities, this symposium engages rural educators and researchers in meaningful and constructive conversations about the impact of the current political context on their work. Rural scholars will facilitate small group discussions about the contextualized definitions of rurality, the new relevance of rural places to the political process, the implementation of current policies in rural places, and changes in the intellectual atmosphere of colleges and universities since the election.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Rural Education

Chair

• Jayne A. Downey, Montana State University

Papers

• Rural Differences and Different Ruralites - Michael J. Corbett, Acadia University

• The "Rural Vote" - Amy Price Azano, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

• Rural Education and National Policy in 2018 - Devon G. Brenner, Mississippi State University

• Anti-Intellectualism and the Rural College Student - Carrie Freie, The Pennsylvania State University - Altoona

• Rural School Closure and Consolidation - Karen Eppley, The Pennsylvania State University