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  • This chapter considers three standpoints on rural giftedness. By "standpoint" we indicate a grounded way of reading the world: based on a place in it and, in our case, an articulated position (i.e., writing the world) about being there. Our particular standpoint for writing the world—given previously in many venues—is that rural is best understood as a set of meanings related to the land, to family, to rural sorts of work, and to local communities. Such meanings as these inform our overall position as rural educators: that rural schooling should encourage, support, and actively facilitate rural adulthoods for rural students. The dominant position, however, suggests instead that most rural children, especially bright ones, should abandon their home places for opportunities elsewhere to pursue college, medical school, and metropolitan careers, and who abandon rural places altogether, are viewed as successful-Among not only rural school professionals, but among influential rural community members—and indeed, by everyone else. However we want to explain a contrary and largely disparaged position (a position unusually appreciative of the educational potential of rural cultures and places); that is, rural life is not limiting and restrictive, but is instead inclusive and generative. In articulating this position, though, we often—almost always—encounter bafflement among education faculty. To be clear: We are not opposed to any individual leaving or indeed, arriving anywhere. Instead, we ask why the American culture is disparaging of rural locality. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

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