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Direct linkStevens, Ken – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2017
In the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, rural schools are increasingly organised within digital environments, facilitating synergy between in-service and pre-service teachers. The integration of educational theory and teaching practice that is integral to the preparation of teachers for initial positions in rural schools is also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Theories, Educational Practices, Theory Practice Relationship
Download full textCraig, Barbara; Stevens, Ken – Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2012
The research outlined in this paper is based on the convergence of two conceptual frameworks that guide the transfer of knowledge and skills from traditional teacher education, which focused on teaching in single classrooms, to open networked learning environments that include both inter-institutional teaching and learning and local and global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Professional Development, Electronic Learning
Stevens, Ken – Rural Society, 2009
Australia and Canada are large countries with small populations relative to their size, in which a not inconsiderable number of citizens live beyond major centres of population. In both resource-based economies, the provision of quality education in rural schools is an important part of the national social and economic infrastructure. This article…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Teacher Education Programs, Urban Universities, Educational Quality
Peer reviewedStevens, Ken – Education in Rural Australia, 1992
Twenty-four young teachers from urban backgrounds, teaching in two rural Queensland secondary schools, were surveyed about their relationships with students, the community, and administrators; teaching conditions; their satisfaction with teaching, in general and in a rural community; and their career plans. Contains 35 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Rural Schools, Secondary Education
Stevens, Ken – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1995
Tenth-grade students in many rural Australian schools must make decisions regarding their careers and whether they want to migrate to urban areas to complete their education. A study in a small, rural Australian community of the vocational choices of 30 10th-grade students revealed fundamental social differences between working- and middle-class…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Educational Opportunities, Foreign Countries, High School Students
Stevens, Ken – 1994
This paper examines school management and decision-making practices in four small rural New Zealand secondary schools. During the late 1980s, national legislation was enacted that established local school governance by elected boards of trustees. A national teachers' union felt that teachers and their unions had been marginalized from…
Descriptors: Action Research, Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, Community Involvement
