Education and the Global Rural

Barbara Pini is a Professor of Sociology in the School of Humanities at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. She has an extensive publication record in rural studies. Her work includes the co-edited titles Transforming Gender and Class in Rural Spaces (2010), Geographies of Sexualities and Ruralities (2012), and Feminisms and Ruralities (2014). More recently she has examined representations of rural youth in documentary and feature films, and in young adult fiction.


Relebohile Moletsane is Professor and John Langalibalele Dube Chair in Rural Education in the Faculty of Education, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. She has extensive experience in teaching and research in the areas of curriculum studies and gender and education, HIV and AIDS Education in diverse 'cultural' contexts, and girlhood studies in Southern African contexts. She is the co-editor (with Kathleen Pithouse and Claudia Mitchell) of Making Connections: Self-Study & Social Action (2009), and (with Claudia Mitchell and Ann Smith) Was it Something I Wore? Dress, Identity, and Materiality (2012).


Martin Mills is a Research Professor in the School of Education at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. His research interests include social justice and education, alternative schooling, gender and education, school reform, and new pedagogies. He is President of the Australian Association for Research in Education and holds a Visiting Professorship at King's College London, UK. His most recent book (co-authored with Glenda McGregor) is Re-engaging young people in education: learning from alternative schools (2014).