Learning to Leave

Michael Corbett teaches at Acadia University in Nova Scotia and has studied youth educational decision-making, mobilities and education, the politics of educational assessment, literacies in rural contexts, improvisation and the arts in education, conceptions of space and place, the viability of small rural schools, and wicked policy problems and controversies in education.

Preface to the 2020 Edition Foreword Acknowledgment Chapter 1 Introduction Migration and Regional Dependency: The Brain Drain The Migration Imperative in Rural Education Challenges to the Migration Imperative in Rural Schooling Why Would Young People Stay? Schooling and Migration in Atlantic Canada Notes Chapter 2 Reconceptualizing Resistance Habitus, Discourse and Place Resistance Theory in the Sociology of Education Bourdieu's Logic of Practice Poststructural Resistance Theory Resistance and Community Rural Identity Politics The Organized Rural Community as a Resistant Site Conclusion: To Choose and to Move Notes Chapter 3 Who Stays, Who Goes and Where Education and Migration on Digby Neck, 1963-1998 The Economy Education Levels Mobility The Education/Mobility Connection Summary Notes Chapter 4 Parallel Education Systems The Classes of 1963-1974 Family and Work: An Education for Staying The Hand on the Shoulder: Socialization for Leaving Formal Education: Streaming for Leaving in the 1960s and early 1970s Learning to Do: The Construction of Intelligence and Identity in a Coastal Community They Wanted Me to Go to School: Schooling, Identity and Family Leaving Home: Education and Occupational Pioneering I Didn't Want to End Up Resisting Displacement Conclusion Notes Chapter 5 The Boom Years The Classes of 1975-1986 Gender, Work and Schooling Defining Security: Education, Identity and Work Family/Class The Mobile Family Becoming a Stranger Conclusion Notes Chapter 6 Surviving the Crisis The Classes of 1987-1998 What Is There For the Young Ones? Quitting in the 1990s: Finding Something to Do When There's Nothing to Do The New Reserve Army of Labour Getting Out: Class, Gender and Education Survival and Family Back to the Future: Surviving in the New Economy Resistance Conclusion: The Mobile Discourse of Schooling Notes Chapter 7 Conclusion Place Matters Migration, Education and Ambivalence: Mobility Capital Ambiguity, Mobility and Resistance Resistances Rural Schooling and Community Notes References Index

"A major research contribution-one that will join a relatively short list of first-rate books aimed at helping the education research community, as well as the general public, understand the convoluted phenomenon known as rural education."Journal of Research in Rural Education "An engrossing, theoretically sophisticated, and important piece of community sociology."Rural Sociology