Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2023.2202015
Philip Robert
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2023.2208915
J. Dale, M. Raciti, Aaron Tham
ABSTRACT Getting to and from campus matters, especially for students who have relocated from regional and remote (RR) areas who must wrangle, often for the first time, rigid mass public transportation (MPT). Little is known about MPTs’ influence on RR students’ retention intentions or how MPT interacts with other known geographic proximity barriers. Interviews with ten equity practitioners from three Australian universities revealed four interconnected themes. First, MPT access and accessibility can limit university participation. Second, MPT provides a time benefit, enabling study while commuting. Third, relocation anxieties interact with MPT as accommodation further from campus requires greater MPT usage. Fourth, parents are concerned about MPT access and accessibility which adds to other “mixed messages” that they give their children, affecting participation. Efforts that address MPT access and accessibility may improve RR higher education retention and educational outcomes.
{"title":"How mass public transportation influences the retention intentions of Australian regional and remote university students","authors":"J. Dale, M. Raciti, Aaron Tham","doi":"10.1080/10371656.2023.2208915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2023.2208915","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Getting to and from campus matters, especially for students who have relocated from regional and remote (RR) areas who must wrangle, often for the first time, rigid mass public transportation (MPT). Little is known about MPTs’ influence on RR students’ retention intentions or how MPT interacts with other known geographic proximity barriers. Interviews with ten equity practitioners from three Australian universities revealed four interconnected themes. First, MPT access and accessibility can limit university participation. Second, MPT provides a time benefit, enabling study while commuting. Third, relocation anxieties interact with MPT as accommodation further from campus requires greater MPT usage. Fourth, parents are concerned about MPT access and accessibility which adds to other “mixed messages” that they give their children, affecting participation. Efforts that address MPT access and accessibility may improve RR higher education retention and educational outcomes.","PeriodicalId":45685,"journal":{"name":"Rural Society","volume":"32 1","pages":"15 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44415550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2023.2171842
M. Anlimachie, Samuel Badu, D. Acheampong
ABSTRACT Place-based pedagogy (PBP) has become an emerging strategy for improving educational relevance for low-income communities. This article investigates children's learning aspirations to motivate broader theoretical discussion about opportunities for enacting PBP for rural schooling success in Ghana. Using an ethnographic case study design, collaboration with a rural school supported data collection on children's home cultural capital shaping teachers’ pedagogy. Using PBP theorisations, thematic analysis of qualitative data found rural students’ aspirations were less diversified and heavily shaped by their immediate environment. The article concludes that inspiring higher aspirations in the rural children researched would require geographically sensitive teachers who stretch their learners’ inculcated images about their community into global opportunities. The article proposes integration of Ghanaian rural indigenous place-sensitive, apprenticeship-based, collectivist learning approaches and traditionally valued skills, through PBP, as a key re-positioning strategy to improve educational outcomes for Ghanaian rural children through greater harnessing of home cultural capital.
{"title":"Enacting aspirational rural schooling towards sustainable futures: exploring students’ ethnographic imaginations implications for place-based pedagogy","authors":"M. Anlimachie, Samuel Badu, D. Acheampong","doi":"10.1080/10371656.2023.2171842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2023.2171842","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Place-based pedagogy (PBP) has become an emerging strategy for improving educational relevance for low-income communities. This article investigates children's learning aspirations to motivate broader theoretical discussion about opportunities for enacting PBP for rural schooling success in Ghana. Using an ethnographic case study design, collaboration with a rural school supported data collection on children's home cultural capital shaping teachers’ pedagogy. Using PBP theorisations, thematic analysis of qualitative data found rural students’ aspirations were less diversified and heavily shaped by their immediate environment. The article concludes that inspiring higher aspirations in the rural children researched would require geographically sensitive teachers who stretch their learners’ inculcated images about their community into global opportunities. The article proposes integration of Ghanaian rural indigenous place-sensitive, apprenticeship-based, collectivist learning approaches and traditionally valued skills, through PBP, as a key re-positioning strategy to improve educational outcomes for Ghanaian rural children through greater harnessing of home cultural capital.","PeriodicalId":45685,"journal":{"name":"Rural Society","volume":"31 1","pages":"155 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43899424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2022.2151137
B. van Zyl, J. Cilliers, L. Lategan
ABSTRACT This research investigates the planning and design of child-friendly spaces in an African context by means of a placemaking approach. Previous research has focused on place-making and urban planning and design guidelines for public spaces, but with limited focus on child-friendly public spaces. Thus, this article investigates and recommends urban planning and design guidelines for child-friendly spaces in an African context. The research employs a qualitative research analysis to investigate child-friendly spaces in two African case studies, Dandora, Naibobi, Kenya, and Orlando East, Johannesburg, South Africa. The investigation illustrates the need for context-based planning and place-making principles adopted to fit the needs of child-friendly spaces. Whilst the research is intended as a pilot investigation, with the urban planning and design guidelines identified requiring further refinement, findings provide insights and contribute to the planning knowledge base, especially on how planning and design of public spaces can shape more child-friendly public spaces.
{"title":"Spatial planning guidelines for child-friendly spaces: an African perspective","authors":"B. van Zyl, J. Cilliers, L. Lategan","doi":"10.1080/10371656.2022.2151137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2022.2151137","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This research investigates the planning and design of child-friendly spaces in an African context by means of a placemaking approach. Previous research has focused on place-making and urban planning and design guidelines for public spaces, but with limited focus on child-friendly public spaces. Thus, this article investigates and recommends urban planning and design guidelines for child-friendly spaces in an African context. The research employs a qualitative research analysis to investigate child-friendly spaces in two African case studies, Dandora, Naibobi, Kenya, and Orlando East, Johannesburg, South Africa. The investigation illustrates the need for context-based planning and place-making principles adopted to fit the needs of child-friendly spaces. Whilst the research is intended as a pilot investigation, with the urban planning and design guidelines identified requiring further refinement, findings provide insights and contribute to the planning knowledge base, especially on how planning and design of public spaces can shape more child-friendly public spaces.","PeriodicalId":45685,"journal":{"name":"Rural Society","volume":"31 1","pages":"179 - 195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43821147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2022.2151138
D. Prashanth, G. Sridevi
ABSTRACT India is witnessing a transition in policy perspective from the creation of peasant proprietorship to tenancy liberalisation as a part of market friendly land reforms in contrast with state-led redistributive land reforms. The proposed market friendly reforms are more oriented towards landlord interests compared with landless tenants and agricultural labourers. This justifies the historical unjust and unfair forms of the process of accumulation. The present article, by explicitly considering the case of tenancy liberalisation, argues that the policy absolves the problem of widening socio-economic inequalities and abstains from addressing the issues of absentee landlordism. The research maps evidence of the concentration of land with the feature of absenteeism amongst dominant castes and fallowisation. Hence, a case is made for enabling land ownership by the cultivator in order to achieve equity, efficiency and sustainability in agriculture.
{"title":"Land, caste and tenancy: understanding the origins and effects of absentee landlordism in the changing context","authors":"D. Prashanth, G. Sridevi","doi":"10.1080/10371656.2022.2151138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2022.2151138","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT India is witnessing a transition in policy perspective from the creation of peasant proprietorship to tenancy liberalisation as a part of market friendly land reforms in contrast with state-led redistributive land reforms. The proposed market friendly reforms are more oriented towards landlord interests compared with landless tenants and agricultural labourers. This justifies the historical unjust and unfair forms of the process of accumulation. The present article, by explicitly considering the case of tenancy liberalisation, argues that the policy absolves the problem of widening socio-economic inequalities and abstains from addressing the issues of absentee landlordism. The research maps evidence of the concentration of land with the feature of absenteeism amongst dominant castes and fallowisation. Hence, a case is made for enabling land ownership by the cultivator in order to achieve equity, efficiency and sustainability in agriculture.","PeriodicalId":45685,"journal":{"name":"Rural Society","volume":"31 1","pages":"196 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47467460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2022.2087293
M. Opoku, Alex Nester Jiya, Rose Cynthia Kanyinji, William Nketsia
ABSTRACT Teachers are instrumental in promoting equitable access to education. In Malawi, Africa, teaching posts in rural schools go unfilled. This has culminated in discussions about appropriate ways to enhance teacher retention in rural schools. This research adopted Mason and Matas' four-capital model of teacher retention as a framework to study the predictors of teacher retention and job satisfaction. We recruited a total of 305 primary school teachers from 44 rural schools in 21 communities in two of Malawi's three regions. The data were entered into SPSS. Findings from a t-test, analysis of variance, correlations and linear and hierarchical regressions found a positive relation between social and structural capital in the retention model and that teacher retention correlated positively with job satisfaction, with education predicting retention. The article concludes by discussing the need for teacher educators to prioritise social and structural capital to promote rural education.
{"title":"Retention and job satisfaction among rural primary school teachers in Malawi","authors":"M. Opoku, Alex Nester Jiya, Rose Cynthia Kanyinji, William Nketsia","doi":"10.1080/10371656.2022.2087293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2022.2087293","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Teachers are instrumental in promoting equitable access to education. In Malawi, Africa, teaching posts in rural schools go unfilled. This has culminated in discussions about appropriate ways to enhance teacher retention in rural schools. This research adopted Mason and Matas' four-capital model of teacher retention as a framework to study the predictors of teacher retention and job satisfaction. We recruited a total of 305 primary school teachers from 44 rural schools in 21 communities in two of Malawi's three regions. The data were entered into SPSS. Findings from a t-test, analysis of variance, correlations and linear and hierarchical regressions found a positive relation between social and structural capital in the retention model and that teacher retention correlated positively with job satisfaction, with education predicting retention. The article concludes by discussing the need for teacher educators to prioritise social and structural capital to promote rural education.","PeriodicalId":45685,"journal":{"name":"Rural Society","volume":"31 1","pages":"101 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48018045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2022.2086223
E. Molua
ABSTRACT Rural communities areinherently vulnerable to global warming-induced climate change. This article examines farmland management choices and evaluates the income strategies made in climate change scenarios to ensure resilience. A Heckman probit model and a Ricardian revenue function are applied to information generated from 215 farms sampled in western and northern Cameroon. Economic factors, as well as geographic factors, are shown to influence the likelihood of perceiving and adapting to climate change. Climate influences revenue both in linear and quadratic forms, with temperature and rainfall significant in key farming seasons. The marginal impacts of climate are positive, whilst revenues decrease with summer temperature. Farm revenue is shown to be elastic for spring temperature but inelastic for summer temperature. A warming of 1.5°C leads to declines in revenue of about 4.3% without adaptation. When warming is increased to 2.5°C losses are shown to increase by 7.3%. These losses are lower when adaptation is considered.
{"title":"Private farmland autonomous adaptation to climate variability and change in Cameroon","authors":"E. Molua","doi":"10.1080/10371656.2022.2086223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2022.2086223","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Rural communities areinherently vulnerable to global warming-induced climate change. This article examines farmland management choices and evaluates the income strategies made in climate change scenarios to ensure resilience. A Heckman probit model and a Ricardian revenue function are applied to information generated from 215 farms sampled in western and northern Cameroon. Economic factors, as well as geographic factors, are shown to influence the likelihood of perceiving and adapting to climate change. Climate influences revenue both in linear and quadratic forms, with temperature and rainfall significant in key farming seasons. The marginal impacts of climate are positive, whilst revenues decrease with summer temperature. Farm revenue is shown to be elastic for spring temperature but inelastic for summer temperature. A warming of 1.5°C leads to declines in revenue of about 4.3% without adaptation. When warming is increased to 2.5°C losses are shown to increase by 7.3%. These losses are lower when adaptation is considered.","PeriodicalId":45685,"journal":{"name":"Rural Society","volume":"31 1","pages":"115 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44670692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2022.2083856
E. Jang, Duk-Byeong Park
ABSTRACT This research aims to identify the factors that influence community capacity as it affects the mobilisation of inner resources and community conflict management for community residents. Data from an on-site survey consisting of self-administered questionnaires were obtained from 339 community residents in rural areas of South Korea. Factor analysis identified four dimensions: problem assessment, leadership, connections and self-help. Education, income, length of residence, as well as participation in agricultural cooperatives, community development organisations and hobby organisations were significant factors in influencing individuals having positive or negative attitudes and abilities associated with community capacity. Conclusions suggest that community development specialists and policymakers should consider these factors to understand individuals participation in community-based organisations in order to build community capacity.
{"title":"Factors influencing the community capacity of rural residents in South Korea","authors":"E. Jang, Duk-Byeong Park","doi":"10.1080/10371656.2022.2083856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2022.2083856","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This research aims to identify the factors that influence community capacity as it affects the mobilisation of inner resources and community conflict management for community residents. Data from an on-site survey consisting of self-administered questionnaires were obtained from 339 community residents in rural areas of South Korea. Factor analysis identified four dimensions: problem assessment, leadership, connections and self-help. Education, income, length of residence, as well as participation in agricultural cooperatives, community development organisations and hobby organisations were significant factors in influencing individuals having positive or negative attitudes and abilities associated with community capacity. Conclusions suggest that community development specialists and policymakers should consider these factors to understand individuals participation in community-based organisations in order to build community capacity.","PeriodicalId":45685,"journal":{"name":"Rural Society","volume":"31 1","pages":"87 - 100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44478615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2022.2084584
Leah M. Bouchard, Traci L. Wike
ABSTRACT Youth out-migration is an issue for rural communities. When youth leave their communities, rural areas face an aging workforce, diminished social capital, and injured local economy. Some youth leave the community to pursue college or careers with the intent to return, and some return even though they had no intentions to when they left. Decisions to migrate may be heavily influenced by the gendered nature of rural life and the imbalance of expectations around family, career, and caretaking experienced by women. Informed by feminist theory, this qualitative research explores structural and cultural forces that motivate rural young women to out-migrate. It addresses implications of rural youth out-migration for individual trajectories, such as career options or relationship to family, and community trajectories, such as the loss of the new workforce. Participants identified family, non-familial relationships, boredom, small-town politics, community, market, and negative experiences as motivations to leave or return.
{"title":"Good as gone: narratives of rural youth who intend to leave their communities","authors":"Leah M. Bouchard, Traci L. Wike","doi":"10.1080/10371656.2022.2084584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2022.2084584","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Youth out-migration is an issue for rural communities. When youth leave their communities, rural areas face an aging workforce, diminished social capital, and injured local economy. Some youth leave the community to pursue college or careers with the intent to return, and some return even though they had no intentions to when they left. Decisions to migrate may be heavily influenced by the gendered nature of rural life and the imbalance of expectations around family, career, and caretaking experienced by women. Informed by feminist theory, this qualitative research explores structural and cultural forces that motivate rural young women to out-migrate. It addresses implications of rural youth out-migration for individual trajectories, such as career options or relationship to family, and community trajectories, such as the loss of the new workforce. Participants identified family, non-familial relationships, boredom, small-town politics, community, market, and negative experiences as motivations to leave or return.","PeriodicalId":45685,"journal":{"name":"Rural Society","volume":"31 1","pages":"69 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49270217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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