Bush Tracks: Exploring Rural Teaching Transitions

Title
Bush Tracks: Exploring Rural Teaching Transitions
Publication Date
2006
Author(s)
McConaghy, Cathryn Elizabeth
Graham, Lorraine
Bloomfield, Dianne Margaret
Miller, Judith Anne
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3098-6504
Email: jmiller7@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jmiller7
Paterson, David Leonard
Lloyd, Linley
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7714-1213
Email: lcornis2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:lcornis2
Jenkins, Kathryn Ann
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5936-1391
Email: kjenkins@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:kjenkins
Hardy, Joy
Taylor, Neil
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8438-319X
Email: ntaylor6@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ntaylor6
Noone, Genevieve
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9663-2675
Email: gnoone2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:gnoone2
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA)
Place of publication
Bathurst, Australia
UNE publication id
une:2121
Abstract
Rural teaching is a phenomenon often characterised by transitions: transitions from urban or regional universities to rural communities, between rural teaching posts and others, and from classroom teaching to leadership responsibilities. In the last century many Australian teachers have begun their careers, that is, they have undertaken the transition from student teacher to beginning teacher, in a rural school. Rural teacher mobility is a phenomenon that has been well documented over many decades and the impacts in terms of staffing dilemmas are the focus of strategic policy reforms in most Australian states. Usually perceived as a problem for education, particularly in times of rural teacher shortages and leadership succession crises, the Bush Tracks Research Collective is seeking to understand the nature of rural teaching transitions in new ways. Through a research collaboration between educational researchers and rural teachers, central to our focus is an understanding of how people become good rural teachers, specifically, how they learn rural pedagogies and rural leadership strategies. This paper presents a preliminary analysis of our surveys and case studies of the transitional experiences of rural teachers.
Link
Citation
Education in Rural Australia, 16(2), p. 3-11
ISSN
1036-0026
Start page
3
End page
11

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