Kai Schafft's Information
POSITION TITLE: Assistant Professor of Education (EDLDR)
RESEARCH AREAS:
Demographic Perspectives on Inequality and Opportunity
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| PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE:
2004-Present Assistant Professor, Department of Education Policy Studies, The Pennsylvania State University
2004-2005 Co-Director, Penn State Center on Rural Education and Communities
2005-Present Director, Penn State Center on Rural Education and Communities
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| HONORS, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FELLOWSHIPS:
2008 Editor, Journal of Research in Rural Education
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Schafft, K.A.
(1999).
"Local Minority Self-Governance and Hungary's Roma."
Hungarian Quarterly 40(155):91-99.
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Schafft, K.A.
(2000).
"A Network Approach to Understanding Post-Socialist Rural Inequality in the 1990s."
Eastern European Countryside 6:25-39.
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Schafft, K.A.
and
D.L. Brown
(2000).
"Social Capital and Grassroots Development: The Case of Roma Self-Governance in Hungary."
Social Problems 47(2):201-219.
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Brown, D.L.
and
K.A. Schafft
(2002).
"Population Deconcentration in Hungary during the Post-Socialist Transformation."
Journal of Rural Studies 18(3):233-244.
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Brown, D.L.
and
K.A. Schafft
(2003).
"Social Exclusion in Rural Areas of Eastern and Central Europe."
Eastern European Countryside 9:27-44.
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Molnar, E.
and
K.A. Schafft
(2003).
"The Activities and Aims of Roma Local Minority Self-Governments 2000-2001."
Szociologiai Szemle 1:79-99.
Schafft, K.A.
and
D.L. Brown
(2003).
"Social Capital, Social Networks, and Social Power."
Social Epistemology 17(4):329-342.
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Finlayson, A.C.
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T.A. Lyson
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A. Pleasant
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K.A. Schafft
and
R.J. Torres
(2005).
"The 'Invisible Hand': Neoclassical Economics and the Ordering of Society."
Critical Sociology 31(4):515-536.
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Schafft, K.A.
(2005).
"The Incidence and Impacts of Student Transiency in Upstate New York's Rural School Districts."
Journal of Research in Rural Education 20(15):1-13.
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Schafft, K.A.
(2006).
"Poverty, Residential Mobility, and Student Transiency within a Rural New York School District."
Rural Sociology 71(2):212-231.
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Schafft, K.A.
,
E. Prins
and
M. Movit
(2008).
Poverty, Residential Mobility, and Persistence across Urban and Rural Family Literacy Programs in Pennsylvania.
Goodling Institute for Research In Family Literacy.
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Bagdonis, J.M.
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C.C. Hinrichs
and
K.A. Schafft
(2009).
"The Emergence and Framing of Farm-to-School Initiatives: Civic Engagement, Health and Local Agriculture."
Agriculture and Human Values 26(1-2):107-119.
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Prins, E.
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B.W. Toso
and
K.A. Schafft
(2009).
"'It Feels Like a Little Family to Me': Social Interaction and Support among Women in Adult Education and Family Literacy."
Adult Education Quarterly 59(4):335-352.
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Schafft, K.A.
and
A.Y. Jackson
(2009).
Rural Education for the Twenty-first Century: Identity, Place, and Community in a Globalizing World.
University Park, PA:
Penn State Press.
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Schafft, K.A.
,
E.B. Jensen
and
C.C. Hinrichs
(2009).
"Food Deserts and Overweight Schoolchildren: Evidence from Pennsylvania."
Rural Sociology 74(2):153-177.
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