Rural Educational Justice: Early Teacher Residents Perceptions and Engagement

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 9:50 am Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: Preparing Teachers for Rural Contexts: Well-Being, Justice, and Place-Based Education (Table 8)

Abstract

Responding to three converging paradigms in education, a) calls from rural education to be responsive to the assets and issues of rural communities, b) compelling data of teacher shortages that necessitate new models of teacher training through residencies, and c) broader social justice education goals that promote equity and culturally sustaining pedagogy for traditionally marginalized students, a team of educational researchers and teacher educators developed a rural teacher residency that supports a novel framework of rural educational justice (REJ) practices. Presenters will share both the REJ framework and qualitative empirical findings that illuminate how beginning residents understood the opportunities for rural educational justice in their residency schools and how they were engaging with and enacting REJ practices within those contexts.

Authors

• Christy Howard, East Carolina University

• Jennifer L. Gallagher, East Carolina University

• Angela Novak, East Carolina University

• Shawnda Cherry, East Carolina University