LINKING RURAL AND REGIONAL COMMUNITIES INTO TEACHER EDUCATION

Abstract

Internationally, and in Australia, preparation to teach in rural areas has been one widely recognised weakness of contemporary teacher education (Altbach, Reisberg and Rumbley, 2009; Kline, White and Locke, 2013; Lyons, Choi and McPhan, 2009). The term rural, often broadly used to denote a range of areas away from cities, is defined in Australian government statistics in terms of distance to be travelled to urban services (Baxter and Gray, 2011).