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The Development of Virtual Schooling in Newfoundland and Labrador
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Saqlain, Nadeem – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2016
K-12 online distance education is growing rapidly and many organizations focus on virtual schooling in Canada. The centre for Distance Learning and Innovation (CDLI) was established in 2000 in Newfoundland and Labrador and has been offering numerous opportunities to rural high school students through online distance education. In this paper, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Rural Education
Trades and Aides: The Gendering of Vocational Education in Rural Alberta
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Taylor, Alison; Servage, Laura; Hamm, Zane – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2014
This article examines two Canadian high school work experience programs that focus on rural youth. The first encourages students to consider work in skilled trades, while the second encourages them to become qualified as healthcare aides. Both programs were designed to encourage high school students to explore careers in fields where labor market…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Work Experience Programs, Rural Education
The Impact of High School Distance e-Learning Experience on Rural Students' University Achievement and Persistence
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Dodd, Charlene; Kirby, Dale; Seifert, Tim; Sharpe, Dennis – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2009
The rapid growth of information technologies has influenced the way in which education is delivered and experienced. Little is currently known about the impact of distance education experience at the secondary level of the educational system on subsequent educational pursuits in the post-secondary education system. This research utilized archival…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Academic Persistence, Rural Education
Standardized Individuality: Cosmopolitanism and Educational Decision-Making in an Atlantic Canadian Rural Community
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Corbett, Michael J. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
With the rise of network society, consumerism, individualization, globalization and contemporary change forces, students are pressured to both perform well in standardized academic assessments while at the same time constructing a non-standard, unique project of the self. I argue that this generates a particular set of place-based tensions for…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Rural Education, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
Travels in Space and Place: Identity and Rural Schooling
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Corbett, Michael – Canadian Journal of Education, 2007
This analysis draws on interview data from a three-year study of educational decision making of youth living in a coastal community in Atlantic Canada. Students whose educational and mobility aspirations extend outside the known spaces of the community develop the ability to negotiate multiple social spaces in and out of school. The school- …
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Environment, Rural Sociology, Rural Schools
Planting the Seeds: Growth in Rural Education [Two]... A Series of Choices
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Online Submission, 2006
"Planting the Seeds: Growth in Rural Education [Two]... A Series of Choices" outlines nine effective practices in programming for small and rural schools. The nine projects are described and additional resources, contacts, and references are provided for each. The nine projects include an outreach school partnership, the use of a mobile…
Descriptors: Small Schools, Rural Schools, Rural Education, Outreach Programs