Current Issues in Rural Education in Newfoundland and Labrador

Authors

  • Dennis Mulcahy Memorial University, Newfoundland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v17i1.532

Keywords:

isolated places, rural community decline, distance education, declining enrolments

Abstract

It has been my privilege over the last fifteen years to meet and work with rural educators, researchers and scholars from all over the world. I have visited many small schools, many in quite remote and isolated places in my home province of Newfoundland and Labrador. I have had many conversations with many students, parents and community leaders. I have disciplined myself to listen and respect the local knowledge that has been shared. I say ‘disciplined’because too often university professors are more apt to talk rather than listen. I have come to realise we academics need to talk less and listen more. These many experiences in rural places and rural schools have been truly educational. That is important because, as we say in Newfoundland, I am a born and bred ‘townie’. That means for most of my life I have lived and worked in an urban area; I have not had the experience of growing up in a rural community or in an ‘outport’as many rural places are called in Newfoundland and Labrador. 

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Published

01-03-2007

How to Cite

Mulcahy, D. (2007). Current Issues in Rural Education in Newfoundland and Labrador. Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 17(1), 17–39. https://doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v17i1.532

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Section

RURAL CONNECTIONS: CELEBRATING SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES