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Peer reviewedDwyer, Shelley – Education in Rural Australia, 1999
A final-year student teacher from the University of Southern Queensland (Australia) describes her student teaching experiences in a one-room school in the isolated town of Birdsville, focusing on the harsh natural environment, the demands of a multiage classroom, and positive attributes of the small school and community involvement. (SV)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Geographic Isolation, Higher Education
Peer reviewedWilliams, Elizabeth – Education in Rural Australia, 1999
A final-year student teacher from the University of Southern Queensland (Australia) describes her student teaching experiences at Gunpowder State School, an isolated one-room school in central Queensland, focusing on techniques for managing the multiage classroom and teacher-community relationships. (SV)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
VanBalkom, W. Duffie; And Others – Education Canada, 1994
Examines the special characteristics of small rural schools and stresses the importance of programs preparing teachers to teach in rural areas. Describes a program at Bishop University that provides preservice and inservice education for rural educators in Quebec. Includes additional suggestions for meeting the professional development needs of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Download full textLeithwood, K.; Montgomery, D. – 1978
Responses to a series of five group interviews and questionnaire surveys provide the basis for this study of the effects of declining enrollment on Ontario's curriculum. The supervisory personnel in the sample identified six factors in curriculum planning that would be influenced by declining enrollment: teachers, line administrators, curriculum…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Curriculum Development, Declining Enrollment, Educational Objectives
Higgins, Andrew H. – 1993
In Australia, many teachers begin their careers in rural schools, a posting for which they are often ill-prepared. This book addresses the concerns of beginning teachers or other teachers about to take up rural appointments. The first chapter examines the context of rural schools, differentiates between "rural education" (education…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Geographic Isolation
Peer reviewedGibson, Ian W.; Gibson, Kay L. – Education in Rural Australia, 1995
An Australian preservice teacher education course used interactive television to present real-life, rural teaching situations as examples of best practice. These were integrated with problem-based learning scenarios focusing on dilemmas faced by practicing teachers in multigraded rural classrooms. Evaluation revealed positive feedback from both…
Descriptors: College Seniors, Distance Education, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education
