A Rural Education Summer School: Unpacking the Right to be Rural

Abstract

This article engages with one of the core missions of this journal - strengthening the research and practical links between Australian and international rural education. It does so through describing and reflecting on a one-week Summer School course on social justice and remote schooling the authors of this article delivered at Hokkaido University. A dozen postgraduate students took the course, which included a theoretical component, based on theories of justice and epistemic justice, and a fieldtrip to the remote community of Hamamasu in Hokkaido. Following Lefebvre's idea of 'the right to the city', in this article we draw on the concept of the right to be rural to examine the process of r..