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Indigenous Community Partnerships across Country: Questioning What Counts
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Hunter, Erin Kristeen; Reid, Jo-Anne – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2020
A doctoral study of a program designed to provide access to secondary education for children from a remote Indigenous community was completed in 2014 (Hunter, 2015). This paper reflects on the ongoing commitment of members of this community to a partnership that uses interstate boarding schools as a means of educating their children. It reviews…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Boarding Schools
Rural Education Practice and Policy in Marginalised Communities: Teaching and Learning on the Edge
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Reid, Jo-Anne – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2017
In this paper I focus on the problems that face (teacher) education policy and practice in meeting the challenge of 'persistent and entrenched locational disadvantage' in marginal communities. In "Dropping off the Edge 2015," Tony Vinson and colleagues (2015) clearly demonstrate that complex and entrenched disadvantage has continued to…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Educational Policy, Community Characteristics, Foreign Countries
Investing in Sustainable and Resilient Rural Social Space: Lessons for Teacher Education
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White, Simone; Lock, Graeme; Hastings, Wendy; Cooper, Maxine; Reid, Jo-Anne; Green, Bill – Education in Rural Australia, 2011
Attracting and retaining effective education leaders and teaching staff for regional, rural and remote schools in Australia is a major sustainability and quality issue facing every State and Territory. It is also a major concern in pre-service teacher education, particularly for those universities which have a commitment to rural and regional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Rural Schools, Educational Change
Supporting Beginning Rural Teachers: Lessons from Successful Schools
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White, Simone; Lock, Graeme; Hastings, Wendy; Reid, Jo-Anne; Green, Bill; Cooper, Maxine – Australian Teacher Education Association, 2009
Across Australia and internationally, the vexed problem of staffing rural school remains a major issue affecting the educational outcomes of many rural students and their families. TERRAnova, (New Ground in Teacher Education for Rural and Regional Australia), is the name of a large Australian Research Council funded (2008-2010) project involving:…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Teacher Persistence, Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers
Cinders in Snow? Indigenous Teacher Identities in Formation
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Reid, Jo-Anne; Santoro, Ninetta – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2006
The identity work engaged in by Indigenous teachers in school settings is highlighted in a study of Australian Indigenous teachers. The construction of identity in home and community relationships intersects with and can counteract the take up of a preferred identity in the workplace. In this paper we analyse data from interviews with Indigenous…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Data Analysis, Interviews, Culture
Gathering No Moss? Examining Discourses of Exclusion for Remote and Indigenous Students
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Reid, Jo-Anne; Simpson, Tracey; Zundans, Lucia – Education in Rural Australia, 2005
Many teacher educators today will find little difficulty in completing this cloze--but Bob Dylan's understanding of the outsider may not be one that we share in terms of our own experience as teacher educators. Our concern in this paper is to suggest that such an understanding may also be one that we do not often concern ourselves with on behalf…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Rural Education, Teacher Educators, Teacher Education