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Strengthening work integrated learning (WIL) experiences for rural education students : exploring community based partnerships

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posted on 2011-01-01, 00:00 authored by M Cooper, M Ortlipp, Juliana Ryan, Bernadette Walker-Gibbs, Simone White
This paper investigates three areas of priority for rural teacher education: work integrated learning (WIL); attraction and retention of teachers to rural areas; and the potential challenges and benefits of community based partnerships to address these areas of need. The data on which this paper is based focuses on a Victorian project around six case studies that explored the research and scholarship of teaching graduates to be work ready for the needs of rural and regional communities. The project also aimed to explore how preservice teacher education can develop and better support pre-service teachers (PSTs) through rural and regional community-based WIL experiences.
The project investigated what sort of support PSTs undertaking WIL experiences in rural and regional communities need in order to develop positive attitudes and understandings in relation to working in a rural/regional community. Consideration was also given to how support from the university, school,
supervising teacher and broader local community enhances or detracts from the PST’s experience of WIL in rural and regional areas. In order to explore these issues in this paper the authors will outline some recommendations with regards to ways in which teacher education programs may enhance the experiences of stakeholders involved in rural and regional WIL experiences, including PSTs, supervising teachers, university teacher educators and community members.
The project’s underlying conceptual framework of place, productivity and partnerships will be explained in terms of its overlapping dimensions of community, creativity and capital in order to reconceptualise preservice teacher education in local, rural and regional and global contexts as adaptive community-based work integrated learning within a knowledge economy.
The final discussion will make recommendations on how universities and other identified stakeholders can better facilitate WIL and enhance stakeholder engagement in rural and regional areas in order to equip PSTs
and classroom teachers to work creatively together in productive partnerships to meet the future demands of local rural and global contexts of change in a knowledge economy.

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Event

Australian Association for Research in Education International Research in Education. Annual Conference (2011 : Hobart, Tasmania)

Publisher

Australian Association for Research in Education

Location

Hobart, Tas.

Place of publication

[Hobart, Tas.]

Start date

2011-11-27

End date

2011-12-01

Language

eng

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E1 Full written paper - refereed

Title of proceedings

AARE 2011: Researching across boundaries : Proceedings of the Australian Association for Research in Education 2011 annual conference

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