Author Archive for: darryl-spera

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Feature Articles

• The Importance of Subject Specificity Concerns of Rural, Beginning Health and Physical Education Teachers – Doune Macdonald
• Isolated Farmers Make Good Learners – A D Mackenzie
• Beginner’s Tale – J M R Cameron
• Audio-­graphic Tele-­teaching in Pre­-Service Teacher Education – Colin Boylan, Don Squires, Alan Smith
• Staffing Issues in Remote Rural Schools – What Can New Zealand Learn from the Australian Experience? – Jan Martin
• Isolated Schools Project – Kelly Meiklejohn, Elizabeth Barrett
• The Australian Rural Education Award

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• Educating for Cultural Understanding in Rural Communities: A Case Study – Bob Hill, Noel Thomas
• Personal Reflections on Researching in Small Schools – Brendan Nolan

Brief Reports

• No More SOTA for Me – Angus Seekamp
• Home Schooling: A View of Future Education? – Sandra H Nicholls
• Some Priorities for Planning in Your Rural School
• Rural Parents’ Perceptions and Values and How They May Contribute to a More Contextually Based Early Childhood – Louise Hard
• Report on the Beaver County […]

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Feature Articles

• Celebrating Connectedness – Robin Maslen
• What is Ag­Ed? – Lee Mylne and Judy Linley

Brief Reports

• Rural Students Studying in Tertiary Settings – Brian Hemmings, Russell Kay, and Doug Hill
• Rural and Remote Professional Practice Placements for Children’s Studies Students – Stephanie Jackiewicz, Rosa Lincoln and Kristen Brockman
• Teacher/Intern Partnerships in Isolated Areas: A Project Overview – Allan Yarrow, Roy Ballantyne, Brian Hansford, Paul Herschell and Jan Millwater
• Australian Rural Education Award 1997

Book Review

• Schools and […]

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Feature Articles

• A Voice for Education in Rural Australia – Colin Boylan
• What Does Social Justice Mean for Education in Rural Australia? – Ann Morrow
• Issues in Education in Remote Rural Australia – Ted Scott
• Catering for the Needs of Pre­-School Age Children in Rural Areas: A Case Study Margaret Clyde Parental Reasons for Sending Children to a Rural Day and Boarding School – Robert Baker, John Andrews

Brief Reports

• A Kick Start to Rural Education – Marie Dale
• The Rural […]

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VOLUME 2 No.1 1992

Feature Articles

• Redefining Remoteness in the Post Industrial Society – Peter d’Plesse
• Education and change in Rural Areas in the 1990’s – Chicken Little Was Not Wrong – Robb Mason, Shirley Randell
• Rural Decline and community Services Education in Victoria: The Bendigo Experience – Peter Condliffe
• Educational Extension Literature for Farmers – Just How Good Is It? – Ross Hartley
• The Professional Standing of the Replacement Teacher in the Education Community: A Country Region’s Perspective – Barry Gill, Brian […]

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Feature Articles

• Opening of National Distance Education Conference – Juliane Steele
• Using Interactive Television to Deliver Professional Development Programs in Rural Victoria – Vaughan Prain, Tony Booth
• Inclusive Education: Impact on Teachers in Small Rural Schools – Barry A Fields
• Four Considerations Regarding the Viability of Small Rural Schools in New Zealand – Ken Stevens
• A Regional Survey of Primary Social Education: Trialling and Results – Ray Nichol

Brief Reports

• Isolated Schools Project – Erica Vance, Paula Sullivan
• Higher Education Extended […]

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Feature Articles

• Semantic Complexities in Defining Rurality: Towards a Definition Based on Human Considerations – Frances B Cameron­-Jackson
• Instructional Flexibility in Rural and Suburban Secondary Schools in North and North West Queensland: A Comparative Analysis – Mike Staunton
• Workplace Learning and the Use of Curriculum Statements and Profiles by Teachers of Educational Disadvantaged Students – John Retallick, Doug Hill, Colin Boylan
• Glenora District High School – James Hill
• President’s Annual Report – Sheila King
• International Conference Report – David McSwan
• Post Secondary School […]

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Feature Articles

• Expanding the Universe of Education – Elizabeth Parsons
• Increasing Interactive Activity – Using Technology to Enhance Interaction Between Teachers, Students and Learning Material – Ruary Bucknall
• Renewing The Rural Environment: A Real Life Story of Rural Change – Merri Gill
• Australian Rural Education Award 1995 – A Challenge for the Future – Julie Ewers

Brief Reports

• Opening the Door on Best Practice: Contrasting Teaching Styles in the Multigrade Classroom – S King, P Young
• Practice Teaching in a Distance […]

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Feature Articles

• Educating Australian Circus Children: Strategies to Reinvigorate Rural Education – P. A. Danaher, P. M. Hallinan and B. J. Moriarty
• Distance Teaching via Video­-conferencing in New South Wales Schools: Students’ and Teachers’ Perceptions – Colin Boylan and Rodney Francis
• There’s Vegemite on my Assignment: An Impact Assessment of Wimmera Adult Literacy and Basic Education Group Neville Strachan Change is a Journey Taken One Step at a Time – Deidra J Young
• A Rural Community and Its School: Contemporary Insights Through Historical […]

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Feature Articles

• Remote Student Access to Education via Satellite Delivery – Colin Boylan, Andrew Wallace, Wayne Richmond
• Student Perceptions of Teacher-­Student Interpersonal Behavior and classroom Learning Environment in Metropolitan and Country Schools – Bruce G Waldrip, Darrell L Fisher

Brief Reports

• Vocational Education and Training: Its Impact on the Traditional Education Environment – Chris Bolvig
• Flexible Delivery of Education in Kalgoorlie: Planning and Opening a Flexible Delivery Centre of Education at Curtin University, Kalgoorlie Campus – Leslie Smith
• Learning Technologies in […]

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Feature Articles

• ‘Now, Year Ones, this is your life!’ Preparing the present generation of students for a world of – Hedley Beare

Short Articles

• Parents’ perceptions of planning for and provision of early childhood services in rural and regional NSW – Tracey Simpson, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst
• Review of contemporary issues for rural schools – Peter Arnold, Principal, Thurgoona Public School, NSW
• Designing a flexible model of learning for a rural health organisation: a case study – Melissa Mills, Rural Health Education […]

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Feature Articles

• Children’s physical activity, health and physical education in isolated rural contexts: The views of parent educators in Queensland – Tony Rossi, Faculty of Education, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba Jan Wright, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Wollongong
• Learning partnerships in rural early childhood settings – Kennece Coombe and Joy Lubawy, Charles Sturt University

Feature Topic: Delivering Education in Rural Areas

• Strategies for Improving Success in First­Year Accounting for Internal Students at a Regional University Campus – Janet K […]

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Editorial Changes – Emmy Terry President SPERA

Meet the New Editors – Colin Boylan

Interactive distance e­Learning for isolated communities:

• Starting and finishing the jigsaw – Stephen Crump and Colin Boylan
• The sound and the vision: developments in interactive distance education facilitated by satellite broadcast in NSW and the NT. – Lorraine Towers and Amy Hutchinson
• Interactive distance e­Learning for isolated communities: The policy footprint – Stephen Crump, Kylie Twyford and Margaret Littler
• Interactive distance learning […]

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Feature Articles

• Chasms in Students Achievement: exploring the rural­ metropolitan divide – Debra Panizzon and John Pegg
• Life is Good for Babies: the pedagogical and management decisions enabling a teacher to be employed in rural infant ­toddler program – Lynda Ireland
• Student perceptions of teacher­ student interpersonal behaviour and cultural factors of learning environment in metropolitan and country schools – Bruce G. Waldrip and Darrell L. Fischer
• Academic Partnerships at a Regional University […]