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Toward a Socially Just Rural Education

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A central aim in this book has been to contribute to the overlooked research area of rural education and offer a nuanced understanding of the complexities of a social justice agenda for rural school participants. This chapter examines the developments in education policy and rural education a few years after the study that informs the book has concluded. Thus, it works also as an afterword and a moral reflection of the work ahead for policy-makers, researchers, and practitioners in the quest of achieving a socially just rural education.

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Cuervo, H. (2016). Toward a Socially Just Rural Education. In: Understanding Social Justice in Rural Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50515-6_8

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