Reading and Writing Place: Connecting Rural Schools and Communities - Hardcover

by Erika L. Bass (Author), Amy Price Azano (Author)

In Reading and Writing Place: Connecting Rural Schools and Communities Erika L. Bass and Amy Price Azano suggest there is a need to add nuance to the ways we consider and engage with place in the classroom. Using a narrative writing project completed with two rural schools in two states, the authors provide an explanation of critical placed education and how students' explorations of place through writing led the authors to develop a concept of place (Big "P" and small "p" place). Students' explorations of place highlighted the how internalizations and externalizations of place impact identity formation and sense of belonging.

Author Biography

Erika L. Bass is assistant professor of English Education at the University of Northern Iowa.

Amy Price Azano, is a professor of rural education and adolescent literacy and director of the Virginia Tech Center for Rural Education.