Abstract
For the past 10 years, Charles Sturt University students from the Wagga Wagga campus have participated in the New South Wales Department of Education and Training's Beyond the Line program. In this paper a longitudinal analysis of the feedback provided by the students is collated and discussed. The successful and non-successful aspects of the program are identified along with analysis of the impact of participation in the program on students' preparedness to seek a rural appointment following completion of their undergraduate course of studies.These data are then contrasted with final year student understandings of rural communities, and findings that engagement in rural communities is not enough to generate deep understandings of the rural communities within which we all work. Rural education at the pre-service level is still a work in progress.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 26th SPERA |
| Subtitle of host publication | Sustaining the rural education community, promoting high quality teaching and learning |
| Editors | C. Boylan |
| Place of Publication | Perth, WA, Australia |
| Publisher | SPERA |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 0977549348 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |
| Event | Society for the provision of education in rural Australia conference - University of Sunshine Coast, Mooloolaba, Queensland, Australia Duration: 15 Sep 2010 → 17 Sep 2010 |
Conference
| Conference | Society for the provision of education in rural Australia conference |
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| Country/Territory | Australia |
| Period | 15/09/10 → 17/09/10 |