By Michelle Anderson, Michelle Davis, Peter Douglas, David Lloyd, Barrey Niven, Hilary Thiele

ISBN-10: 1441668349

ISBN-13: 9781441668349

A Collective Act: best a small university explores the features of, the context for, and the demanding situations to profitable management. It identifies what the study says approximately small tuition management after which tells 5 compelling tales of best in such settings, from throughout Australia. jointly, the examine and the instances current a powerful argument for greater realizing this particular context of leadership.

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These gendered notions of rural life and student pathways in the 15 settings across Australia led the researchers to suggest that this helped to explain why boys may leave school earlier than girls in rural schools, and why girls tended to decide (not in all cases) that their futures would be better served if they completed their school education and went on to further studies. ’ through questionnaires and interviews with 30 Year 10 students in a rural Queensland school, their families, teachers, the principal and a selected number of community members; and a partially replicated study with 62 students in their last year of schooling in Newfoundland in Atlantic Canada.

But as John Halsey25 points out: Pre-service rural teacher placements are a major, annual logistical exercise as well as being an injection of substantial ‘limited-duration’ additional resources into schools and communities. He goes on to explain that a wide range of people are involved and affected by these placements—the pre-service teacher; at least one or more of their lecturers; staff and students of the placement school; university administrators (for development and infrastructure of the program); often family members and partners; local communities and businesses.

Jenny drives along the airstrip, does a right-hand turn at the end of the runway and proceeds to drive back towards the school room. Ten minutes later she parks the car and walks up A portrait of small schools 13 the path to the school room where she is joined by the employed supervisor/governess3 and her younger brother Paul—just in time for school assembly to greet her fellow ten classmates on Skype. Both Kathy, my colleague, and Jenny are amused at the whole scenario, but for different reasons.

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