(Re)Placing Rural Education: Unpacking Place at the Intersections of Rural and Indigenous Education

Session Type: Working Group Roundtable

Abstract

This working group roundtable brings together three Indigenous and three non-Indigenous rural education researchers to discuss potential intersections of Indigenous and rural education scholarship. This intersection is an opportunity to generate more complex spatial understandings of both non-urban education systems and territory/land that is demographically defined as rural. The term rural is problematic in the sense that it has come to signify European settler hegemony as well as whiteness. As such, Indigenous scholarship can help reconfigure common (mis)understandings of space and place that have been foundational to how conceptions of rurality and the field of rural education have developed. At the center of this discussion is the central problem of place and land, and how they are conceptualized.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Rural Education

Chair

• Jeffrey W. Wood, Laurentian University

Papers

• Liberating Sovereign Potential Through (Re)Placing: Revisiting an Education Capacity-Building Model for Native Nations - Alex Red Corn, Kansas State University

• Unforgetting Place-Based Education - Michael J. Corbett, Acadia University

• Wilderness, Nature, Rural? Making Sense of the Production of Space Within the Settler Colonial Imaginary - Kelsey Dayle John, University of Arizona

• Unpacking the Cultural Colonization of Place in the U.S. Rural Context - Jerry Johnson, East Carolina University

• Creating Bridges Instead of Borders: Fostering Student Resilience Through Integrated, Play-Based Watershed Curriculum - Hollie Mackey, North Dakota State University

• White Rural Educational Research: The Possibilities of Multiplicity - Karen Eppley, Pennsylvania State University