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Understanding Social Justice in Rural Education

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This chapter introduces the main concepts, rationale, and location of the study that informs this book. It states from the outset that the injustices and inequalities experienced by rural school participants in Australia place the concept of social justice at the center of any discussion of education. It is argued that the problem, however, is that social justice is a term that does not have the same meaning for everyone. The chapter delineates an approach to a plural social justice in education, followed by a description of the schools and communities where the study took place. The chapter concludes with a detailed outline of all the chapters in this book, thus depicting the different disciplines and theories (e.g. theory of justice, education research, sociology of youth, rural studies, and mobilities) that are presented throughout the book.

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Cuervo, H. (2016). Introduction. In: Understanding Social Justice in Rural Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50515-6_1

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