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Cuervo, Hernán – Journal of Pedagogy, 2020
The last Australian government review on rural education reveals that staffing schools continues to be a challenge. To examine this problem, the paper draws on data from semi-structured interviews with pre-service teachers undertaking rural school placement. The aim is to address rural school staffing through a bi-dimensional social justice…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Rural Schools, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Placement
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Griffith, Dennis A. – Education in Rural Australia, 2003
A purely geographic classification is not the best way to measure rural disadvantage in Australia. A service access model is described that incorporates the following elements: population center size; distance, time, and cost of travel to the service center; and a measure of the economic capacity of residents to overcome the cost of travel.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Classification, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
Press, Harold; Galway, Gerald; Collins, Alice – Education Canada, 2003
Newfoundland and Labrador has many rural communities, low literacy rates, high unemployment, declining enrollment and population, and teacher shortages. Policy responses have been to consolidate schools, increase rural teacher pay, increase teacher recruitment, implement distance learning and distance professional development, intensify…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Consolidated Schools, Distance Education, Educational Change
Dale, Allan – 1994
This paper examines specific problems facing community service delivery in rural Australia and efforts to overcome these deficiencies. The generic term "rural" is advantageous in that it delineates particular problems facing rural communities, aids in resource allocation, raises public awareness of rural disadvantage, and provides an…
Descriptors: Community Planning, Community Programs, Community Services, Day Care
Griffith, D. A. – 1994
The Griffith Service Access Frame (GSAF) is a model used for quantifying the access disadvantage to educational services of remote and rural areas in Australia. The model was specifically developed to assist policymakers and administrators in allocating resources. The problem with the current funding formula used by the Australian federal…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Concurrent Validity, Economic Factors, Educational Finance