Place Based Education as a Tool for Rural Career Development

Authors

David J. Bright, State University of New York at New PaltzFollow

Document Type

Article

Keywords

rural, career development, school counseling, advocacy

Subject Area

Counseling, School Counseling

Abstract

Rural career development is rarely studied despite a large portion of American students attending school in a rural area. Rural career development is affected by factors such as student attachment to place, access to professional role models, local economic development, school funding, and geographic proximity to professional industries and higher education. A Critical Pedagogy of Place (Gruenewald, 2003) empowers students to critical explore the spacial and social constructs of their local area.Given that school counselors are in a unique position as career development and social justice advocates, this article explores the use of a Critical Pedagogy of Place as an approach to rural career development.

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.7729/42.1393

Recommended Citation

Bright, D. J. (2020). Place Based Education as a Tool for Rural Career Development. Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision, 13(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.7729/42.1393