Rural (Teacher) Education Project
The Rural Teacher Education Project is an ARC Linkage initiative that seeks to address the issues and challenges of rural schooling in NSW in new ways. It links the major teacher education institutions that supply teachers to rural NSW – Charles Sturt University and the University of New England – with the major employing and professional development body, NSW DET in order to address quality teaching and learning in partnership. The project also addresses the issues of high teacher turnover and difficult to staff rural schools as issues of pedagogy. The project seeks to complement the many industrial reforms which have resulted in financial and other incentives for rural teachers with new quality teaching and learning strategies which it is believed will also provide incentives for teachers to live and work in rural NSW.
Research Papers:
"Place Matters: Productive Partnerships for Quality Teaching" Cathryn McConaghy and Greg Burnett. (PDF file)
"Situated Pedagogies: Researching Quality Teaching and Learning for Rural New South Wales Schools" Cathryn McConaghy. (PDF file)
UNE Chief Investigators:
Dr Cathryn McConaghy (UNE Leader)
Assoc. Prof. Tom Maxwell
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Contact:
Ros Foskey , Project Director
Rural Teacher Education Project
School of Education
University of New England
Armidale NSW
phone: 02 6773 2094
rfoskey@pobox.une.edu.au