Acknowledgments; Contents; chapter 1: Introduction; The Study; The Communities; The Schools; Chapters Outline; Notes; References; chapter 2: Understanding Rural Communities andßEducation Policy; The Idea ofßRural; The Multifunctional Space ofßRurality; Rural Restructuring; The Impact ofßNeoliberal Policies inßtheßFarming Industry; Responsibility andßResilience asßtheßNew Rural Subjectivity; The Idea Egalitarianism; The Political Displacement ofßRural Issues; Is Rural Education Peripheral toßResearch?; The Place ofßRural Education inßPolicy Documents; From Education toßTraining.

Rural Education: AsßIf It MattersA Framework forßRural Schooling inßAustralia; A Return toßtheßPeriphery; Conclusion; Notes; References; chapter 3: Rural Teaching andßLearning inßNeoliberal Times; The Australian Educational Policy Shift: Toward theß"Opportunity" Society; The Pursuit ofßEquity andßExcellence Under aßNeoliberal Paradigm; The Impact ofßNeoliberalism onßTeachers; Staffing Rural Schools; The Reasons forßTeacher Shortages; The Impact ofßPre-service Teaching Courses forßRural Schools; "New Times" Discourse: Implications forßRural Students; The Imperative ofßMobility.

The Second Disadvantage: Rural Youth Out-MigrationConclusion; Notes; References; chapter 4: The Idea ofßSocial Justice; Social Justice asßaßUniversal, Impartial, andßNeutral Concept; Distributive Justice; Desert; Equality; Equality ofßOpportunity; Recognitional Justice; Iris Marion Young: Oppression asßaßSource ofßInjustice; A Radical Egalitarian Critique ofßDistributive Justice: Toward theßPolitics ofßRecognition; Iris Marion Young andßSocial Justice inßEducation; Assessing Social (In)justice Through theßLens ofßSocial Groups; Critique ofßIris Marion Young andßtheßPolitics ofßRecognition.

Associational JusticeBeyond Recognition: AßTheoretical Approach toßParticipation; Learning fromßandßNot About Socially Marginalized Groups; Conclusion; Notes; References; chapter 5: Social Justice inßRural Schooling; The Abstract Conceptualization ofßSocial Justice; Students' Perceptions ofßTheir Rural Schooling Experience; "We Have toßStart All over Again": TheßImpact ofßTeacher Shortage; The Pervasiveness ofßtheßIdea ofßEquality; Teachers' Perceptions ofßTheir Rural Schooling Experience; "We Haven't Got Anybody Else": Challenges toßRural School Staffing.

"That's anßArea That They Could Improve": Principals' Claims forßMore Resources"We Are aßLittle Bit Lucky at theßMoment": Grateful Subjectivity andßRural Schooling; "We Can't Compete withßThem If We're theßPoor Relatives": TheßMarketization ofßRural Schooling; Teachers' Version ofßSocial Justice; Conclusion; Notes; References; chapter 6: The Metamorphosis ofßSocial Justice inßtheßPresent andßtheßFuture; Rural Youth Out-Migration andßStructural Limitations forßaßLocal Future; "It Is SoßExciting toßKnow That They Have All These Opportunities": Parents' Views ofßStudents' Future.