Placing Teachers? Sustaining Rural Schooling through Place-Consciousness in Teacher Education

Autor/inn/en	White, Simone; Reid, Jo-Anne
Titel	Placing Teachers? Sustaining Rural Schooling through Place-Consciousness in Teacher Education
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Rural Education, 23 (2008) 7, S.1-11 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1551-0670
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teacher Education; Educational Needs; Educational Quality; Rural Areas; Foreign Countries; Rural Schools; Teacher Placement; Teacher Qualifications; Student Needs; Teacher Supply and Demand; Student Teacher Attitudes; Consciousness Raising; Field Experience Programs; Student Teaching; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Ausland; Rural areas; School; Schools; Schule; Schulen; Lehrqualifikation; Lehrerbedarf; Bewusstseinsbildung; Praxisnahes Lernen; Teaching practice; Unterrichtspraxis; Australien
Abstract	This paper explores two seemingly disparate areas of social inquiry: teacher education and the sustainability of rural communities in Australia. It suggests that these may be usefully understood in close connection with each other, and that healthy rural communities may be supported via reform of the ways in which teacher education prepares graduates for teaching in rural schools. In making this argument we claim that consideration and consciousness of place are important for all teacher education curricula, not merely that on offer in rural and regional centers. We call for metropolitan-based teacher education institutions to consider curriculum practices that take a more active role in fostering healthy and productive rural communities through place-conscious approaches to pedagogy (Gruenewald, 2003). At the center of this call is a concern to ensure the provision of high-quality education for children in rural families and the need for well-trained teachers who are personally and professionally equipped to address the educational needs of their communities. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Penn State University College of Education, Center on Rural Education and Communities. 310B Rackley Building, University Park, PA 16802. Tel: 814-863-2031; Web site: http://www.jrre.psu.edu/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10