Rural Teacher Education Connecting Land and People

“This book transcends the Canadian context and provides many valuable lessons, questions and challenges to rural scholars and educators around the globe. … to sum up this collection of sixteen chapters, as diverse, complex and rich, was a real challenge; to read it, was exciting and a pleasure.” (Hernan Cuervo, Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, Vol. 31 (1), 2021)

Michael Corbett is Professor of Education at Acadia University and Adjunct Professor of Rural and Remote Education in the Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania. Professor Corbett has studied rural outmigration, youth educational decision-making, the politics of educational assessment, literacies in rural contexts, improvisation and the arts in education, the position of rural identities and experience in education, conceptions of space, place, and mobilities, the viability of small rural schools, “wicked” policy problems and controversies in education, and the use of film and video as a literate medium in schools. 

Dianne Gereluk is Dean and Professor of Education at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. Her areas of expertise include philosophy of education, policy analysis, and political philosophy.  She sits on provincial advisory committees for the province and is a regular commentator on current policy debates in education. Her recent work builds upon issues of equity and access for children and is specifically focused on reducing systemic educational barriers for individuals who live in rural and remote areas of Canada.