From the Editors: Strengthening rural education: Gathering research from around the globe (Editorial)

The papers and authors in this Special Issue ultimately bring alive the complex and interwoven layers of education, globalization, and rurality/regionality, both for themselves as researchers and for the places and people they research. They explore, compare, and contrast how the concepts of identity, place, space, and notions of community are played out in the international literature and applied to their specific contexts in the world. They do this, all the while providing insights into how educational research and rural researchers themselves are situated within and for, their rural/regional-global place..