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Ruraling educational research

Ruraling Education Research

Team Members

Assoc Prof Philip Roberts (UC)
Dr Melyssa Fuqua (UMelb)

Partners

  • Australian Association for Research in Education
  • Rural education academics from around the world

Funding Organisations

  • Australian Association for Research in Education

Rural education is about the future of rural people, places, and communities in modernity. However, rural education is often marginalised in the discipline of education studies, despite having an important role to play in the futures of Australian society. The aim of this project is to produce, as a field, a collective ‘statement’ on what this research area represents, especially as it intersects with other domains of educational research. The project culminated in an edited book that highlights and discusses contemporary trends in rural education scholarship that works as a guide for those new to researching in—and for—rural contexts, as well as actively expanding the other sub-disciplines of education from a rural perspective. We propose the notion of ‘ruraling’, used as a verb, to reframe metro-centricity and metro-normativity in education research.

This project draws on research undertaken by rural education researchers around the world. Each researcher explores the notion of ‘ruraling’ education research in order to reframe metro-centricity and metro-normativity in education research.

The aim of the edited volume is to provide a guide for those new to researching in—and for—rural contexts, as well as to actively expand the other sub-disciplines of education from a rural perspective.

Publications

  • Roberts, P., & Guenther, J. (2021). Framing Rural and Remote: Key Issues, Debates, Definitions, and Positions in Constructing Rural and Remote Disadvantage. In In P. Roberts, & M. Fuqua (Eds.). Ruraling Education Research (pp. 13-27). Springer, Singapore.
  • Roberts, P. & Fuqua, M. (Eds.). (2021). Ruraling Education Research: Connections between Rurality and the Disciplines of Educational Research. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0131-6 .
  • Downes, N., Marsh, J., Roberts, P., Reid, J. A., Fuqua, M., & Guenther, J. (2021). Valuing the Rural: Using an Ethical Lens to Explore the Impact of Defining, Doing and Disseminating Rural Education Research. In P. Roberts, & M. Fuqua (Eds.). Ruraling Education Research (pp. 265-285). Springer, Singapore.
  • Roberts, P. & Hannum, E. (2018). Education and Equity in Rural China: A critical introduction for the rural education field. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 28(2),1-13.
  • Corbett, M. & Roberts, P. (2017). A Small Place: Education in Rural Tasmania. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 27(3), 1-8.
  • Roberts, P. & Cuervo, H. (2015). What Next for Rural Education Research? Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 25(3),1-8.
  • Roberts, P. (2014). Researching from the Standpoint of the Rural. In S. White & M. Corbett, Doing Educational Research in Rural Settings: Methodological Issues, International Perspectives and Practical Solutions, (pp. 135-148). Routledge: New York.
  • Roberts, P. & Green, B. (2013). Researching Rural Place(s): On Social Justice and Rural Education. Qualitative Inquiry. 19 (10),765 - 774.

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