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Al Wood

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Al Wood is an assistant professor in the Department of Middle Grades and Secondary Education at Georgia Southern University. He earned his PhD in curriculum, instruction, and teacher education at Michigan State University and was a middle and high school social studies teacher and academic counselor for nine years in rural northern Arizona, including three years on the Navajo Nation. His research broadly considers how social studies teachers can use critical pedagogy of place to bring engaging, critical, transformative, and anti-oppressive pedagogies to rural classrooms.



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What Exactly Is Good Rural Research? Using a Content Analysis-Informed Literature Review to Illuminate a Path Toward Stronger Rural Social Studies Scholarship

What Exactly Is Good Rural Research? Using a Content Analysis-Informed Literature Review to Illuminate a Path Toward Stronger Rural Social Studies Scholarship

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Volume 41 • Issue 1 • 2025 • 1–27