Jacqueline Yahn
Education
- Ed.D., ºìÐÓÊÓƵ, Educational Administration
- M.A., The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ State University, Integrated Teaching and Learning
- B.A., West Liberty State College, Secondary English Education
Research Interests
- Rural Schools and Rural Community Viability
- School Finance and Organization
- Policy and Leadership
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Dr. Yahn teaches courses in middle childhood education, reading education, children’s literature, and social studies and English Language arts methods. Her major research interests include rural education, rural school, and community viability, school finance, and education policy and leadership. Her work often focuses on current and/or historical issues impacting rural schools and communities, especially those in the Appalachian region.
Most Recent Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
Ricket, A., Yahn, J., & Bentley, E. (2023). . Journal of Research in Rural Education, 39(3).
Yahn, J. & Ricket, A. (2023). . Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy.
Yahn, J. (2023). Schoolhouses above the rock: The shale gas rush and funding in Appalachian ºìÐÓÊÓƵ. Journal of Appalachian Studies, 29(1), 64-87. DOI: 10.5406/23288612.29.1.05
Hartman, S., Yahn, J., Brady, B. (2022). Changing the narrative on rural schools: Addressing damaging rural school stereotypes through teacher education. The Teacher Educators’ Journal,15 (2), 111-130.
Howley, C., Howley, A., Yahn, J., VanHorn, P., Telfer, D. (2019). . Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 31(1), 3-23.
Yahn, J. (2018). Power and Powerlessness in the Shale Valley Schools: Fracking for funding. West Virginia Law Review, 120 (3), 943-972.
Edited Book Chapters
Ricket, A., Yahn, J., & Werry, T. (2024). . In L.Day, J. Johnson (Eds.). Accessible Appalachia: An open-access introduction to Appalachian studies. Richmond, KY: Eastern Kentucky University.
Yahn, J. (2023). The digital literacy divide across the rural lifeworld: From remote possibility to global connectivity. In S. Kerkhoff & H. Spires (Eds.), Critical perspectives on global literacies: Bridging research and practice (pp.75-88). Routledge.
Yahn, J., Ricket, A. & Werry, T. (2023). Bridging schools, communities, and universities: Community and Career Connected Learning. In S. L. Hartman & R. Klein (Eds.), The middle of somewhere: Rural education partnerships and innovation (pp. 13-29). Harvard University Press.
Yahn, J. (2021) This land is our land? Silas House holds up a mirror in his young adult literature. In S. Shurbutt (Ed.), Silas House: Exploring an Appalachian writer’s work (pp. 98-112). University of Kentucky Press.
Yahn, J. (2020) You talkin’ about me? Turning the Blood of Appalachia’s opioid epidemic into ink. In T.Stimeling (Ed.), The opioid epidemic and US culture: Expression, art, and politics in an age of addiction (pp. 118-131). West Virginia University Press.
Yahn, J. (2016). Frackonomics: The fiscal implications of Northern Appalachia’s natural gas boom. In R. Fletcher & W. Schumann (Eds.), Appalachia revisited, (pp. 139-153). University of Kentucky Press.
Articles, White Papers, Outreach Reports
Ricket A., Yahn, J., Belkin, S. (2024). . Building Bridges to Careers.
Ottley, J. R., Yahn, J. J., Clifton, J. A., & Storie, S. O. (2023). . TIES Center.
Ricket, A., Bentley, E. & Yahn, J. (2021). Community and career connected learning: The impact of high school internships in rural Appalachian ºìÐÓÊÓƵ. [Research report]. Building Bridges to Careers.