Abstract

The Handbook on Rural and Remote Education, edited by Jerry D. Johnson and Hobart L. Harmon, represents a landmark contribution to international research in rural education. Published at a time of heightened global awareness of the importance of innovative, equitable, and locally grounded education in rural areas (United Nations [UN], 2023; White & Downey, 2021), the handbook delivers more than a collection of 32 chapters authored by 58 scholars from over 20 countries. It advances a cohesive call to action: moving toward place-sustaining education in rural areas across the globe. Although the concept of place- sustaining education is not explicitly foregrounded in the handbook, it functions as a powerful conceptual lens for understanding the handbook’s significance, illuminating how it centers the strengths of rural people and places in educational practice, policy, and research, and how it advances a transformative vision of rural education as a means of sustaining communities, cultures, and ecologies.

How to Cite:

Saw, G. K. (2025). Place-sustaining education in rural areas: Book review of “Handbook on rural and remote education.” Journal of Research in Rural Education, 41(5), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.26209/JRRE410

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