Erin Mchenry‐sorber
Biographic Data
| ID | 290103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin Mchenry‐sorber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mchenry‐sorber |
| SIGNATURE | SORBER E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | West Virginia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9522-133X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Making Space for Interrogation of Place
The use of critical spatial perspectives in interrogating spatial inequities has proven essential to understanding rural students’, teachers’, and leaders’ experiences. In this qualitative study, we use spatial (in)justice to examine the socio-spatial challenges rural schools experience across different U.S. geographies. We then explore the spatialized local responses to educational problems through the leveraging of local strengths and partnersh…
“If I Ever Leave, I Have a List of People That Are Going With Me
Purpose: Schools across the predominately rural state of West Virginia are experiencing widespread teacher shortages, though recruitment and retention difficulties are unevenly distributed across place. Using spatial in/justice as our framework, we explore how principals define place, how place influences principal perceptions of teacher recruitment and retention, and how principals respond to these staffing challenges given their leadership expe…
The “traditional queer safe space” or “kinda, not really?”
Leading Rural Districts
For this comprehensive literature review, we begin by framing our study with a scholarship review of the theorizing of place-based leadership and rural administrators. We then synthesize research on the practice and experiences of district administrators, including superintendents, school boards, and other ancillary leaders. We identify multiple themes that cross this body of work, including the significance of the relationship between rural resi…
The NREA Rural Research Agenda 2022-2027
This article presents the National Rural Education Association's Rural Research Agenda 2022–2027. In order to determine rural stakeholders' perspectives of research priorities, data collection included 328 surveys, six focus groups with 43 participants, and nine interviews with rural education practitioners, leaders, and policymakers. From a grounded theory methodological framework, findings revealed a core category of educational and spatial equ…
Introduction
Negotiating the Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft Dichotomy
This study investigated motivations for Appalachian medical students to stay or leave the region weighing postgraduation options. Semi-structured interviews were employed with final year medical students. Transcripts were open-coded and analyzed using the theoretical concept of Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft. Participants were in continuous negotiation between notions of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft in their decisions to stay or leave rural Appalachi…
Busted amidst the Boom
In the middle of the first decade of this century new technological innovations enabled the extraction of natural gas through the use of hydraulic fracturing within gas-bearing shale and other unconventional energy reserves. As a consequence, many places, often in economically lagging rural areas, saw dramatic change as they were socially and economically transformed through rapid natural resource development. Although scholarship on so-called bo…
Make My Day, Shoot a Teacher’
Far from being the harmonious and homogenous communities of popular imagination, rural communities often are characterised by stark differences in class-situated values over education philosophy and financing. These differences can produce contentious political environments, vastly complexifying local decision-making, including school district policy-making, budgeting, and teacher contract negotiations. Through an exemplar case study, we examine …
The Power of Competing Narratives
Often considered harmonious places, rural communities are in reality spaces often fragmented along class lines, with political factions promoting competing values and interests regarding the purpose of schooling. Using an exemplar case, this study affords us a new interpretation of rural school-community relations in times of conflict. It illustrates the ways in which opposing groups consolidate political power around competing narratives of the …
Busted amidst the Boom
In the middle of the first decade of this century new technological innovations enabled the extraction of natural gas through the use of hydraulic fracturing within gas-bearing shale and other unconventional energy reserves. As a consequence, many places, often in economically lagging rural areas, saw dramatic change as they were socially and economically transformed through rapid natural resource development. Although scholarship on so-called bo…
Make My Day, Shoot a Teacher’
Far from being the harmonious and homogenous communities of popular imagination, rural communities often are characterised by stark differences in class-situated values over education philosophy and financing. These differences can produce contentious political environments, vastly complexifying local decision-making, including school district policy-making, budgeting, and teacher contract negotiations. Through an exemplar case study, we examine …
The Power of Competing Narratives
Often considered harmonious places, rural communities are in reality spaces often fragmented along class lines, with political factions promoting competing values and interests regarding the purpose of schooling. Using an exemplar case, this study affords us a new interpretation of rural school-community relations in times of conflict. It illustrates the ways in which opposing groups consolidate political power around competing narratives of the …
Negotiating the Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft Dichotomy
This study investigated motivations for Appalachian medical students to stay or leave the region weighing postgraduation options. Semi-structured interviews were employed with final year medical students. Transcripts were open-coded and analyzed using the theoretical concept of Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft. Participants were in continuous negotiation between notions of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft in their decisions to stay or leave rural Appalachi…
Make My Day, Shoot a Teacher’
Far from being the harmonious and homogenous communities of popular imagination, rural communities often are characterised by stark differences in class-situated values over education philosophy and financing. These differences can produce contentious political environments, vastly complexifying local decision-making, including school district policy-making, budgeting, and teacher contract negotiations. Through an exemplar case study, we examine …
The Power of Competing Narratives
Often considered harmonious places, rural communities are in reality spaces often fragmented along class lines, with political factions promoting competing values and interests regarding the purpose of schooling. Using an exemplar case, this study affords us a new interpretation of rural school-community relations in times of conflict. It illustrates the ways in which opposing groups consolidate political power around competing narratives of the …
Busted amidst the Boom
In the middle of the first decade of this century new technological innovations enabled the extraction of natural gas through the use of hydraulic fracturing within gas-bearing shale and other unconventional energy reserves. As a consequence, many places, often in economically lagging rural areas, saw dramatic change as they were socially and economically transformed through rapid natural resource development. Although scholarship on so-called bo…
“If I Ever Leave, I Have a List of People That Are Going With Me
Purpose: Schools across the predominately rural state of West Virginia are experiencing widespread teacher shortages, though recruitment and retention difficulties are unevenly distributed across place. Using spatial in/justice as our framework, we explore how principals define place, how place influences principal perceptions of teacher recruitment and retention, and how principals respond to these staffing challenges given their leadership expe…
The “traditional queer safe space” or “kinda, not really?”
Leading Rural Districts
For this comprehensive literature review, we begin by framing our study with a scholarship review of the theorizing of place-based leadership and rural administrators. We then synthesize research on the practice and experiences of district administrators, including superintendents, school boards, and other ancillary leaders. We identify multiple themes that cross this body of work, including the significance of the relationship between rural resi…
The NREA Rural Research Agenda 2022-2027
This article presents the National Rural Education Association's Rural Research Agenda 2022–2027. In order to determine rural stakeholders' perspectives of research priorities, data collection included 328 surveys, six focus groups with 43 participants, and nine interviews with rural education practitioners, leaders, and policymakers. From a grounded theory methodological framework, findings revealed a core category of educational and spatial equ…
Introduction
Negotiating the Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft Dichotomy
This study investigated motivations for Appalachian medical students to stay or leave the region weighing postgraduation options. Semi-structured interviews were employed with final year medical students. Transcripts were open-coded and analyzed using the theoretical concept of Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft. Participants were in continuous negotiation between notions of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft in their decisions to stay or leave rural Appalachi…
Making Space for Interrogation of Place
The use of critical spatial perspectives in interrogating spatial inequities has proven essential to understanding rural students’, teachers’, and leaders’ experiences. In this qualitative study, we use spatial (in)justice to examine the socio-spatial challenges rural schools experience across different U.S. geographies. We then explore the spatialized local responses to educational problems through the leveraging of local strengths and partnersh…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Indigenous and Place-Based Education (6 works) · Pedagogy (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Diverse Educational Innovations Studies (3 works) · Education Systems and Policy (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)