Australian Rural Education Research: A Geographical Perspective

Autor/inn/en	Pini, Barbara; Mayes, Robyn
Titel	Australian Rural Education Research: A Geographical Perspective
Quelle	In: Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 25 (2015) 3, S.26-35 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1839-7387
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Rural Education; Rural Areas; Human Geography; Educational Research; Research Methodology; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Humangeografie; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Australien
Abstract	This paper brings a rural geographical lens to the study of education and rurality. Two key interrelated notions underpinning Australian educational scholarship on rurality are explored. That is, the concepts of the rural and of community. The adoption and mobilisation of these terms in a large proportion of rural educational research as unproblematic is at odds with contemporary theorising in rural geography. In order to advance studies of rural education, we point to the contestability, fluidity and fundamentally political nature of these core concepts. In doing so, we draw on a selection of extant geographical research and educational research concerned with the rural. In concluding the paper we highlight that as well as challenging orthodoxies in relation to notions of rurality and community, more recent rural geographical scholarship has also engaged a greater diversity of methodological approaches. We suggest that more robust and nuanced approaches to terms such as 'the rural' and 'the community' in educational research could be garnered by reference to this dynamic body of methodological writing. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia. P.O. Box 659, Wembly, Western Australia 6913. Tel: +08-9285-0626; e-mail: admin@spera.asn.au; Web site: http://www.spera.asn.au/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01