Book Review: Rural Voices: Place-Conscious Education and the Teaching of Writing

Authors

Susanne George Bloomfeld, University of Nebraska-Kearney

Date of this Version

2004

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:3 (Summer 2004). Copyright © 2004 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

Rural Voices, a collection of pedagogical essays from ten rural Nebraska elementary and secondary teachers, members of the Nebraska Writing Project's Rural Voices, Country Schools team, combines theory and practice to connect students and teachers with their surrounding communities, teaching them "to live well, actively, and fully in a given place." Robert Brooke's introduction begins, as does each of the essays, with a personal story about his connection to the Great Plains. Since "[l]ocal communities, regions, and histories are the places where we shape our individual lives," Brooke believes, they are essential to making education and writing relevant to students.