Making a Positive Impact in Rural Places – Change Agency in the Context of Scho…

Making a Positive Impact in Rural PlacesChange Agency in the Context of School-University-Community Collaboration in Education\nAuthor(s): R. Martin Reardon, Jack Leonard\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Information Age Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781641132220, 978-1641132220\nSynopsis\nFollowing on from the preceding volume in this series that focused on innovation and implementation in the context of school-university-community collaborations in rural places, this volume explores the positive impact of such collaborations in rural places, focusing specifically on the change agency of such collaborations. The relentless demand of urban places in general for the food and resources ([url] mineral and energy resources) originating in rural places tends to overshadow the impact of the inevitable changes wrought by increasing efficiency in the supply chain. Youth brought-up in rural places tend to gravitate to urban places for higher education and e.