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Prairie Town: Rural Life and Literacies

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Prairie Town, MN (population 5,067), a community on the rural midwestern prairie, isfacing changes as the longstanding agricultural crisis and neoliberalism impact daily life and education in this town. This study, analyzed through a sociopolitical literacy lens, reports the conditions oflife and work in this community as residents work to redefine and reestablish what it means to be rural.

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Edmonson, J., (2001) “Prairie Town: Rural Life and Literacies”, Journal of Research in Rural Education 17(1), 3–11.

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2001-03-20

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