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Rural Education in the 21st Century

Culture, Community, and America’s Commitment to Rural Education. Rural Education in the 21st Century. Paul Theobald, Ph.D. Paul Theobald, Ph.D. Buffalo State College Buffalo, NY . Four Requests. Forbearance Reflect on our bias for the practical Hold it in check for at least an hour

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Rural Education in the 21st Century

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  1. Culture, Community, and America’s Commitment to Rural Education Rural Education in the 21st Century Paul Theobald, Ph.D. Paul Theobald, Ph.D. Buffalo State College Buffalo, NY

  2. Four Requests • Forbearance • Reflect on our bias for the practical • Hold it in check for at least an hour • Open minds to new possibilities

  3. COMMUNITY • MORALITY • DEMOCRACY

  4. Place-Based Education

  5. Morality: A community, not an individual, possession

  6. Community, or common-unity, describes something intimately valuable that is shared

  7. “He who dies with the most toys wins”

  8. DEMOCRACY

  9. Aristotle on Political Theory • As a sense of community erodes . . . so too does morality • As morality erodes . . . extremes in wealth and poverty develop • As extremes in wealth and poverty develop, lawlessness grows • As lawlessness grows, coercion and the exercise of power is increasingly hidden from public surveillance until democracy is a sham

  10. The sun rises in the ____.

  11. Feudalism • King • Landed Aristocracy • Peasants

  12. Stereotypes of Rural Life • The Beverly Hillbillies • The Bob Newhart Show • Deliverance

  13. “Most of the Cuban immigrants were doctors, lawyers, teachers, and other professionals, but some were unsophisticated farmers . . .”

  14. POLICY Celebrate rural life through a curricular imagination that promotes community

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