Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19089
Title: Pre-service Teacher Education in Nauru: Where, Who, and Why
Contributor(s): Serow, Penelope A  (author)orcid ; Taylor, Neil  (author)orcid ; Sullivan, Terry  (author)orcid ; Tarrant, Jodana (author); Burnett, Greg (author); Smardon, Dianne (author); Angell, Emily  (author)
Publication Date: 2016
Open Access: Yes
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19089
Open Access Link: http://jtlge.curtin.edu.au/index.php/aijre/article/view/162Open Access Link
Abstract: Rural education thrives on building teaching capacity and mentoring from within communities. Whilst isolated and remote areas have the potential to participate in online teacher education, strategic and effective delivery requires a targeted analysis of the characteristics of the learners, the motivations that drive them, and day-to-day environmental and community factors influencing the students' studies. This paper reports on an innovative model of teacher education recently implemented in the Republic of Nauru. In this model, the Nauruan Government has partnered with an Australian regional university to develop quality Pacific-focused teacher education programs that are delivered through a hybrid of online and classroom instruction. The Nauru Teacher Education Project (NTEP), conceptualised and administered by the University of New England, provides culturally responsive online and on-island teacher development for the community of Nauru. It is here that the lecturers come to 'know the students'.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 26(1), p. 17-26
Publisher: Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA)
Place of Publication: Australia
ISSN: 1036-0026
1839-7387
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 130103 Higher Education
130311 Pacific Peoples Education
130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 451405 Pacific Peoples educational methods
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 930599 Education and Training Systems not elsewhere classified
930202 Teacher and Instructor Development
939906 Pacific Peoples Education
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 160303 Teacher and instructor development
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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