Beyond self and rural

This collaboration in self-study research into rural teacher education originated when a self-study scholar decided to study rural teacher education during her yearlong academic sabbatical and sought out a rural education scholar with whom to work. Ann Schulte, from the United States, has years of experience with self-study and Bernadette Walker-Gibbs who lives in Australia, had never worked in the field of self-study, rather her expertise was in rural teacher education. The connecting threads in the work of both authors were the shared experiences of preparing teachers for rural communities together with a passion for understanding our respective practices in terms of identity and place.