%0 Journal Article
%T Rural Leaders, Rural Places: Problem, Privilege, and Possibility
%A Budge
%A K.
%J Journal of Research in Rural Education
%D 2006
%I Penn State University
%X I present a case study of the influence of rurality and a sense of place on leaders¡¯ beliefs about purposes of local schooling and their concomitant theories of action in one rural school district. Interview data show that despite their portrayal of life in the valley as a privilege, most leaders viewed their place as presenting more problems than possibilities in the lives of most students. I conclude with the suggestion that a critical leadership of place may best address the strengths and challenges found in much of rural America.
%K rural education
%K rural schools
%K educational leadership
%K place
%U http://www.umaine.edu/jrre/21-13.htm