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Investing in Sustainable and Resilient Rural Social Space: Lessons for Teacher Education by White, Simone, Lock, Graeme, Hastings, Wendy, Cooper, Maxine, Reid, Jo-Anne, Green, Bill

“…Attracting and retaining effective education leaders and teaching staff for regional, rural and remote schools in Australia is a major sustainability and…”
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Building a New Generation: Community Expectations on Raising Aspirations in Rural Tasmania by Corbett, Michael, Fraser, Sharon, Reaburn, Robyn, Smith, Heidi, Roberts, Janine, Fielding-Wells, Jill

“…This paper analyses a community-based educational program involving private and public sector partners instituted in a small city in northern Tasmania. The…”
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Supervision of Nursing Students in Rural Environments: Engaging Learning by Teaching the Teachers by Marlow, Annette, Mather, Carey A

“…The health profession workforce is challenged by the increased numbers of undergraduate students requiring supervised experiences in environments where service…”
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"Aspire High": Impacting Student Aspirations in a Regional Community by Reaburn, Robyn, Fraser, Sharon, Smith, Heidi, Roberts, Janine, Fielding-Wells, Jill, Corbett, Michael

“…This paper provides initial evidence of the effectiveness of an educational program in a Tasmanian regional community that has experienced ongoing industrial…”
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Building a Sense of Community Belonging: Making Mobile Families Welcome in a Rural Australian School by Henderson, Robyn

“…Seasonal farm workers play an important economic role through their contributions to annual harvests and the fact that they spend income in the community where…”
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Liquid Modernity, Emplacement and Education for the Anthropocene: Challenges for Rural Education in Tasmania by Smith, Caroline, Fraser, Sharon P, Corbett, Michael

“…In spite of being relatively wealthy and resource-rich, a persistent narrative of the island state of Tasmania is the deficit framing of its regional and rural…”
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Preparing Rural and Regional Students for the Future World of Work: Developing Authentic Career Focussed Curriculum through a Collaborative Partnership Model by Woodroffe, Jessica, Kilpatrick, Sue, Williams, Brett, Jago, Matthew

“…Small places are not devoid of opportunities nor of successful programs to equip them for the future, despite perception to the contrary (West, 2013). This…”
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Educational Outcomes for Aboriginal School Students in Tasmania: Is the Achievement Gap Closing? by Stone, Alison, Walter, Maggie, Peacock, Huw

“…A quality education is a basic societal right. Yet for many Aboriginal students that right is not yet a reality. This paper focuses on the situation of…”
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Disrupting Perception: Mapping an Understanding of Educational Attainment by Sutton, Georgia, McLeod, Catriona, Fraser, Sharon, Corbett, Michael

“…Educational attainment is widely recognised as a 'wicked' problem in Australia for which a range of interventions have been developed. The North West of…”
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Do Aspirations Really Matter? by Hawkins, Cherie-Lynn

“…The notion of 'raising aspirations' to widen participation in higher education and increase attainment has dominated policy discourse globally for the past…”
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A Case Study of How an Irish Island School Contributes to Community Sustainability, Viability and Vitality by Gill, Peter Edward

“…Island studies have rarely focused on the role of small schools on offshore islands. Island schools are often impacted by the decisions of national, regional…”
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The Promise and the Reality: Exploring Virtual Schooling in Rural Juristictions by Barbour, Michael K

“…The history of online learning at the K-12 level is almost as long as its history at the post-secondary level, with the first virtual school programs beginning…”
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Honouring Our Strengths--Moving Forward by Gorringe, Scott

“…Persistent perceptions of deficit and conflict have characterised and constrained the history of relations between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians…”
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The Influence of Social Contingencies on Teacher Education Students Undertaking a Rural Internship by Hemmings, Brian, Kay, Russell, Kerr, Ron

“…Hughes (1999) categorised non-work demands such as domestic responsibilities and health of family members (including self) as social contingencies. A…”
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"The Internship Experience" by Davidson, Josie

“…The author is in her final year of her double degree--Bachelor of Teaching (Secondary)/Bachelor of Arts at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. She has just…”
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Relationship Building: Understanding the Extent and Value by Lester, Nita C

“…Relationship building in the remote rural settings studied occurred at various levels: professional, school-based, personal, and community-wide. Principals and…”
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Developing Strategies at the Pre-Service Level to Address Critical Teacher Attraction and Retention Issues in Australian Rural, Regional and Remote Schools by Trinidad, Sue, Sharplin, Elaine, Lock, Graeme, Ledger, Sue, Boyd, Don, Terry, Emmy

“…This ALTC project is a collaborative endeavour between the four public universities involved in teacher education in Western Australia (Curtin University,…”
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Farm Fair Voices, Space, History, the Middle Ground and "The Future" of Rural Communities by Halsey, John

“…This article is essentially written as two linked parts. The first part considers how space, spatiality and history can contribute to understanding and "doing…”
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Regional Summer Schools: Widening Learning Opportunities through Intensive Courses by Ellis, Bronwyn, Sawyer, Janet

“…While many universities now include summer school and other intensive courses as part of their annual programme offerings, undergraduate summer school courses…”
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"Ethical Positioning" a Strategy in Overcoming Student Resistance and Fostering Engagement in Teaching Aboriginal History as a Compulsory Subject to Pre-Service Primary Education Students by O'Dowd, Mary

“…The paper describes and analyses the issues that impacted on pre service Primary Education students' engagement with the subject "Aboriginal culture and…”
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