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Cuervo, Hernan – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
The sustained disadvantages suffered by rural schools place the concept of social justice at the centre of any discussion of rural education. However, too often a one-size-fits-all model is adopted that equates it with distribution of resources. Drawing on Iris Marion Young's work, this paper instead demonstrates the necessity of adopting a plural…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Rural Schools, Foreign Countries, Rural Education
Davenport, Gillian; Midford, Richard; Ramsden, Robyn; Cahill, Helen; Venning, Lynne; Lester, Leanne; Murphy, Bernadette; Pose, Michelle – Journal of Drug Education, 2012
This study describes Australian year eight students' (13-14 years old) experiences with alcohol in terms of communication with parents, initiation into drinking, patterns of consumption, context of use, and harms experienced. The sample comprised 521 year eight students from four state government secondary schools in the state of Victoria. Three…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Supervision, State Government, Rural Education
Abbott-Chapman, Joan – Australian Educational Researcher, 2011
Research studies of post-school education and training conducted in Australia and internationally have revealed a mosaic of students' education and employment experiences, with a multiplicity of nonlinear pathways. These tend to be more fragmentary for disadvantaged students, especially those of low socio-economic background, rural students, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Foreign Countries, Employment Experience
Downes, Natalie – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2013
For a number of very remote students in Australia, distance education is regarded as the most effective means of providing access to primary school education. For these students isolation is experienced not only in relation to distance from a physical school, but also from a professionally trained educator and the instructional benefits this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Jenkins, Kathy; Reitano, Paul; Taylor, Neil – Education in Rural Australia, 2011
A free response survey was administered to 100 self-identified mid and late career teachers in regional New South Wales to determine why they had chosen to work in a rural location, and identify the positive and negative aspects of their choice. This paper focuses on the 53 survey responses from these mid and late career teachers. A range of…
Descriptors: Experienced Teachers, Teacher Surveys, Rural Education, Teacher Attitudes
Constable, Sophie; Dixon, Roselyn; Dixon, Robert – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2011
As part of strategies to improve dog and community health in rural and remote Indigenous communities, this study investigated preferences and impacts of dog health education programs. Semistructured interviews with 63 residents from five communities explored learning preferences. Though each community differed, on average yarning was preferred by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Animals, Health, Indigenous Populations
Trinidad, Sue; Sharplin, Elaine; Ledger, Sue; Broadley, Tania – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2014
In 2010 a group of teacher educators from four universities, experienced in rural and remote education, formed the Tertiary Educators Rural, Regional and Remote Network (TERRR Network). The collaborative goal was to improve the quality of graduates taking appointments beyond the metropolitan areas of Western Australia. The TERRR Network developed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Field Experience Programs, Teacher Educators
Madsen, Wendy; O'Mullan, Cathy; Keen-Dyer, Helen – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2014
Leadership programs have been extensively promoted in rural communities in Australia. However, few have been evaluated. The results of the evaluation of a rural leadership program provided in this paper highlight the need for adult learning theories to be more overtly identified and utilised as the basis of planning and implementing leadership…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Leadership Training, Rural Education
Broadley, Tania – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2012
Impending changes in Australian education brings forth the expected transformation of teachers working in schools. Three key points for transforming Australian schools has been identified by Gillard (2008a) including the improvement of quality teaching, ensuring every child benefits and mandating transparency and accountability. A number of…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Educational Change
Ikin, Kerrie, Ed. – Australian College of Educators, 2016
The theme of the 2016 National Conference of the Australian College of Educators (ACE), "Challenges and changes: The power of education to build the world to which we aspire," provided a unique opportunity for education professionals to carefully consider and propose papers, workshops, and poster sessions to stimulate discussion and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conferences (Gatherings), Conference Papers, College Faculty
Trinidad, Sue; Broadley, Tania; Terry, Emmy; Boyd, Don; Lock, Graeme; Byrne, Matt; Sharplin, Elaine; Ledger, Sue – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2012
This paper reports on outcomes of Phases One and Two of the ALTC Competitive Research and Development Project "Developing Strategies at the Pre-Service Level to Address Critical Teacher Attraction and Retention Issues in Australian Rural, Regional and Remote Schools". This project funded over two years aims to strengthen the capacity and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Curriculum, Rural Education, Foreign Countries
Trinidad, Sue; Broadley, Tania; Terry, Emmy; Boyd, Don; Lock, Graeme; Sharplin, Elaine; Ledger, Sue – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2013
This paper reports on the outcomes of a two year ALTC Competitive Research and Development Project that aimed to "Develop Strategies at the Pre-Service Level to Address Critical Teacher Attraction and Retention Issues in Australian Rural, Regional and Remote Schools". As well as developing a "training framework" and teaching…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Competencies, Rural Education, Indigenous Populations
Stack, Sue; Beswick, Kim; Brown, Natalie; Bound, Helen; Kenny, John; Abbott-Chapman, Joan – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
This paper presents a professional learning (PL) model that emerged from the authors' involvement with PL processes in several rural and remote schools in the state of Tasmania. As is the case for rural areas generally, young people in rural areas of Tasmania have lower retention rates to Year 12 and lower participation rates in higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Education, Rural Schools, Rural Areas
Sullivan, Anna; Johnson, Bruce – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2012
Early career teachers eager to find employment are often encouraged by employers to accept positions in remote locations which are traditionally difficult to staff. This paper reports research that examined a case study of a graduate teacher employed in a remote school. Drawing on resilience theory, we challenge the profession to consider whether…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Resilience (Psychology)
Mayes, Robyn – Journal of Rural Studies, 2010
Studies of place construction in the rural studies literature have largely privileged the role of professionals over that of local lay actors. This paper contributes to redressing this imbalance through a critical case-study of lay postcard production in a rural shire. Drawing on original, qualitative research conducted in the Shire of…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Plagiarism, Foreign Countries, Rural Development