Teacher Education for a Rural-Ready Teaching Force: Swings, Roundabouts, and Slippery Slides?

Autor/inn/en	Roberts, Philip; Downes, Natalie; Reid, Jo-Anne
Titel	Teacher Education for a Rural-Ready Teaching Force: Swings, Roundabouts, and Slippery Slides?
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 47 (2022) 3, S.94-111, Artikel 6 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0313-5373
Schlagwörter	Rural Schools; Preservice Teacher Education; Foreign Countries; Program Evaluation; Teacher Effectiveness; Elective Courses; Required Courses; Practicums; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Ausland; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Elective course; Wahlkurs; Pflichtkurs; Practicum; Praktikum; Praktika; Australien
Abstract	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 very few rural-teaching units offered in teacher education courses, and there are no courses at all that seek this as an explicit outcome. As the Australian Professional Standards for Teaching claim the importance of teachers understanding students and their contexts, we argue that effective teacher education must not only focus on understanding rurality, and developing awareness of the affordances of place, but must also address the pedagogical requirements for present day rural teaching. We argue that the lack of teacher preparation for locational, geographic forms of social difference works to produce and sustain educational disadvantage when these intersect with economic and cultural difference. On this basis we call for government to address this major failing in the provision of education for Australian children through policy change to teaching standards. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Edith Cowan University. Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, West Australia 6050, Australia. Web site: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01