Learning to leave: The irony of schooling in a coastal community

Abstract

Policy makers, educators and parents have attempted to understand and explain the decisions that young people make about education, life choices, and their future in rural communities.Michael Corbett takes this inquiry further and offers rich illustrative examples for the real and perceived gains and losses that are considered by rural youth, as he describes the complexity of their attitudes towards formal schooling and these transitions.The inherent tensions between educating for future mobility and with/in a rural community struggling to survive are reflected in the title, Learning to leave: The irony of schooling in a coastal community.