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Brake, Desiree – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative case (preregistered) study is to interview rural young Americans, deeply explore how they think about higher education as they prepare for life beyond high school, and analyze how those views and perceptions translate into barriers or motivators to its pursuit. Rural Americans feel less optimistic about their…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Student Attitudes, Rural Schools, Educational Attitudes
Paschal-Young, Rebecca Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative evaluation of Emory's Oxford Summer Experience Program examined rural students' college aspirations. Educational and economic barriers hinder rural students' college enrollment and degree attainment (Adelman, 2002; Byun, Meece, & Irvin, 2012; Means, Clayton, Conzelmann, Baynes, & Umbach, 2016). Because of these barriers,…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Experiential Learning, Rural Schools, Academic Aspiration
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Wallington, Elizabeth Thorne; Johnson, Adrienne – Rural Educator, 2022
Many rural communities have seen population shifts with burgeoning communities of linguistic, racial, and economic diversity expanding into traditionally homogenous rural communities (e.g. Brenner, 2016; Sharp & Lee, 2017). These shifts can occur rapidly, as a result of regional economic, social, or political forces and are particularly…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Areas, English Language Learners, Models
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Leech, Nancy L.; Haug, Carolyn A.; Rodriguez, Eleanor; Gold, Molly – Rural Educator, 2022
Retaining teachers is a problem in all districts but is especially difficult in rural areas. This survey research asked teachers in a western state to respond to open ended questions regarding their choice for teaching in a rural or urban area. Results indicate teachers work in a rural locale because they grew up in the area, already lived there…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Persistence, Educational Environment
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Fenton, Lisa; Playdon, Zoë; Prince, Heather E. – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2022
Bushcraft emerged from indigenous knowledge with a skill-base used for military, commercial and recreational purposes. We identify it as embodied contextual learning,for and with the environment, arising from a deep inter-subjective relationship with the natural world. This focus suggests a 'conscientisation' developing a critical awareness,…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Outdoor Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Transformative Learning
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de la Cruz Orozco, Ivania; Razo, Ana – Journal of Education, 2022
This article analyzes the strategies used in subnational governments to implement an education policy aimed to increase high school coverage in marginalized communities of rural Mexico. Based on in-depth interviews with responsible for administering the "telebachillerato" model, findings display the implications of enacting a poorly…
Descriptors: High Schools, Rural Schools, Rural Areas, School Expansion
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Nel, Benita P. – Perspectives in Education, 2022
This article reports on mathematics teachers' professional learning prospects through video-stimulated recall (VSR), a tool for in-house professional development. Providing timeous feedback to teachers on aspects of their teaching that they should improve are greatly beneficial. Two Mathematics teachers at a rural high school in a province of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Mathematics Teachers, Video Technology, Recall (Psychology)
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Roberts, Philip; Downes, Natalie; Reid, Jo-Anne – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
The preparation of teachers for rural schools has been a significant focus of research for many decades. In this paper we update previous reports of the extent of Initial Teacher Education courses that prepare teachers for rural schools in Australia. We found that despite significant and continued calls for rural teacher education, there are still…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation
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Kriewaldt, Jeana; Lee, Shu Jun – Geographical Education, 2022
This article reports on out-of-field (OOF) geography teaching in Australia. Participants were 298 teachers who responded to a national survey in late 2019. Findings indicate that OOF teaching remains prevalent in Australian geography classrooms which affects students' experience of learning geography. It also reports on the effects of policies in…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Certification, Foreign Countries
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Koricich, Andrew; Sansone, Vanessa A.; Fryar, Alisa Hicklin – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2022
Absent a formal definition or measure, it has not been possible to comprehensively identify rural-serving institutions (RSIs) for the purpose of research and policy making. The Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges (ARRC) spent a year working to resolve the absence of standards for identifying RSIs. The RSI Metric components are: (1) Percent…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Minority Serving Institutions, Identification, Rural Areas
Coleman, Likisha Tamese – ProQuest LLC, 2022
African American women are underrepresented in the attainment of superintendent roles from a racial and gendered standpoint. African American females hold only 1% of superintendent positions in a field in which 27% of superintendents are women and 8.6% of superintendents are African American. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to…
Descriptors: Superintendents, African Americans, Women Administrators, Rural Schools
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Eseadi, Chiedu – Online Submission, 2022
As a career development tool, career mentoring is an important way to gain new skills, knowledge, competence, and other resources from an experienced colleague who is in the same profession. This study examined how career mentoring influences career orientation and career engagement among Nigerian rural secondary school librarians. This…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Planning, Mentors, Rural Schools
Gwendolen Susanne Jacobs – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Professional development provides opportunities for teachers to acquire the knowledge needed to become experts in their classroom content and to improve their instructional skills to meet the needs of today's student learners. While districts and curriculum leaders work to improve professional development design, teachers' dissatisfaction with…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Attitudes, Program Effectiveness
Hannah Mose Harvey – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research explored principals' perceived leadership content knowledge around literacy by examining the relationship between principals' perceptions of their own literacy knowledge and the actions that they took to support teachers' literacy instruction. A sampling group included seven elementary principals and 25 elementary teachers from Title…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Principals, Reading Instruction, Literacy
Jason Michael Moss – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Principal turnover is a serious issue across the United States with the turnover rate between 17 and 21 percent per year (Levin et al., 2019). School districts in Wyoming, a state with a rural population higher than 95 percent, are faced with principal turnover as well. If principals are not satisfied with their job, it could affect their…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Principals, Job Satisfaction, Faculty Mobility
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