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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
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Anderson, Michelle; White, Simone – Australian Journal of Education, 2011
The theme of this article is the challenge that school leaders face in creating the conditions for learning in small schools. We draw on the concepts of "social capital" and "social entrepreneurship" to identify tensions and possibilities for school leaders in a case study of a small rural school as they seek to find resources…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Small Schools, Social Capital, Instructional Leadership