The Bush Tracks Research Collective

Titel	The Bush Tracks Research Collective
Quelle	In: Education in Rural Australia, 16 (2006) 2, S.3-11 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1036-0026
Schlagwörter	Student Teachers; Rural Schools; Teacher Shortage; Rural Areas; Faculty Mobility; Leadership Responsibility; Beginning Teachers; Educational Researchers; Foreign Countries; Rural Education; Surveys; Case Studies; Teacher Education; Teacher Education Programs; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehramtsstudent; Lehramtsstudentin; Referendar; Referendarin; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Lehrermangel; Junior teacher; Junglehrer; Erziehungswissenschaftler; Erziehungswissenschaftlerin; Ausland; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Australien
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. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia. P.O. Box 659, Wembly, Western Australia 6913, Australia. Tel: +08-9264-5809; e-mail: admin@spera.asn.au; Web site: http://www.spera.edu.au
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10