Putting Rurality on the Educational Agenda
Work Towards a Theoretical Framework
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v15i2.514Keywords:
rurality, educational disadvantage, teacher retention, teacher recruitment, social theoryAbstract
It is perhaps too easy to suggest that rurality in educational terms has been largely missing from the pages of educational research texts. A search of the past few AARE annual conference papers throws up few papers on this topic; although an issue of
Australian Journal of Education includes a paper on long-staying rural teachers (Boylan & McSwann, 1998), while the International Studies in Educational Administration, looks at small country schools in Wales (Huckman, 1998 p.3). However, there are two main areas in which educational research has been active in considering rurality in. education: educational disadvantage for secondary school'students in relation to access to curriculum; and recruitment and retention of teachers.
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