Reading, Writing, and Rurality

A Review of Teaching of English in Rural Communities and Teaching Diversity in Rural Schools

Authors

  • Terri Suico Saint Mary's College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2376-5275.2024.6.2.169-177

Keywords:

rurality, teaching English, critical rural English pedagogy, teaching diversity

Abstract

This review examines two recent scholarly books on teaching English language arts in rural areas. Robert Petrone and Allison Wynhoff Olsen’s Teaching English in Rural Communities: Toward a Critical Rural English Pedagogy offers strategies and research-based rationales on how to teach students to think critically about depictions of rurality in texts. Teaching Diversity in Rural Schools by Lisa Hazlett focuses on using young adult literature to teach students in rural schools about diversity. The review evaluates the texts’ contents and examines how both books contribute to educators’ understanding of rurality and the specific needs of rural schools.

Author Biography

Terri Suico, Saint Mary's College

Terri Suico is an associate professor of education and the director of the Center for Academic Innovation at Saint Mary’s College. She earned her EdD from Boston University School of Education and her MAT from Vanderbilt University. Her scholarly work has been included in several books and journals. Most recently, an article she cowrote appeared in NCTE’s English Education. She currently serves as the book review and interview editor for Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature and is on the incoming editorial team for The ALAN Review.

References

Hazlett, L. A. (2023). Teaching diversity in rural schools: Attainting understanding, tolerance, and respect through young adult literature. Rowman & Littlefield, Inc.

Ingersoll, R. M., & Tran, H. (2023). The rural teacher shortage. Kappan, 105(3), 36–41. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00317217231212008

Petrone, R., & Wynhoff Olsen, A. (2021). Teaching English in rural communities: Toward a critical rural English pedagogy. Rowman & Littlefield, Inc.

USDA. (2021). Rural America at a glance. U.S. Department of Agriculture. https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/102576/eib-230.pdf

Images of Book Covers for the books reviewed.

Downloads

Published

2024-06-24

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2024): RURAL YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE: CONSIDERING DIVERSITY AND COMBATTING RURAL ERASURE

Section

Book Reviews

License

Copyright (c) 2024 Terri Suico

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.