Table of Contents

Preface; Multifunctional Centers in Rural Areas: Fabrics of Social and Human Capital; Rural Teacher Education: Evidence from the Greek Small Rural Primary Schools; Rural Medical Education; Refugee Centered Education: Critical Theory in Practice; Teaching for Social Change in the 21st. Century: Global Education Prepares Educators to Work in Rural Schools; Rural Development Programs in Argentina and Its Institutions (in the Context of Neoliberal Acroeconomic Adjustment); Understanding the pedagogies of exclusion: Towards a language pedagogy of inclusivity for marginalised children in South Africa; School Reforms in Post-Independence Ghana: Trends and Issues in Special Education; From Caring to Education for Children with Severe Disabilities in a Rural Context; An Overview of USDA Rural Development Programs; Index.