Revisiting the Rural Superintendency: Rethinking Guiding Theories for Contemporary Practice

Authors

Erin McHenry-Sorber, West Virginia University
Kathleen Budge, Boise State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2018

Abstract

This conceptual article challenges researchers and practitioners to reconsider the utility of current constructs used to understand the rural school superintendency. We evaluate the rural leadership literature through two waves of scholarship: insider/outsider conceptions and place-conscious/critical place-conscious constructs. We assert critical place-conscious leadership as potentially responsive to contemporary rural realities, but we provide a number of revisions for theoretical development to increase applicability to the realities of the rural superintendency in practice in the early part of the twenty-first century.

Copyright Statement

This document was originally published in Journal of Research in Rural Education by Penn State University Press. Copyright restrictions may apply.

Publication Information

McHenry-Sorber, Erin and Budge, Kathleen. (2018). "Revisiting the Rural Superintendency: Rethinking Guiding Theories for Contemporary Practice". Journal of Research in Rural Education, 33(3), 1-15.