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Murphy, Steve – Research in Science Education, 2022
Science education is essential for sustainability and prosperity. However, students from rural communities, arguably the future custodians of our environment and significant drivers of our economies, underperform in science education. In Australia, rural students generally lag behind metropolitan students in science achievement and engagement.…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, High School Students, Secondary School Science, Enrollment
Woodcock, Stuart; Hardy, Ian – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2022
In this article, we reveal the complex and contested nature of principals' understandings of inclusion policy in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Drawing upon critical policy sociology, research into inclusion, and interviews with 18 principals from rural, regional and urban areas throughout the state, the research shows how principals…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Inclusion, School Policy
McKay, Heather A.; Edwards, Renée; Douglas, Daniel – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2022
This article examines how states and community colleges can streamline the transfer process through an innovative national program known as Interstate Passport. The program enables block transfer of lower-division general education attainment based on a set of learning outcomes rather than on individual courses and credits. The article shows how…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Interstate Programs, College Transfer Students
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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