Presented in EDUCATION AND RURAL-REGIONAL SUSTAINABILITY: A SYMPOSIUM
Our title refers to TERRAnova – the „new ground ‟ that we are aiming to claim and cultivate in the area of rural teacher education in Australia. Like others in this symposium, we are aiming to understand the role and significance of education in and for rural-regional sustainability, within larger e...
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| Summary: | Our title refers to TERRAnova – the „new ground ‟ that we are aiming to claim and cultivate in the area of rural teacher education in Australia. Like others in this symposium, we are aiming to understand the role and significance of education in and for rural-regional sustainability, within larger eco-social dynamics of sustainability and change. A socio-ecological approach to sustainability assumes a multiple perspective, and requires us to work with a parallel and simultaneous attention to people and place, time and space, culture and nature, discourse and practice, reality and hope. Using notions of ecosocial change and sustainability (Lemke, 1995), we draw from an overall conceptual framework within which sustainability is expressly understood in terms of the integration of social, economic and environmental (or ecological) imperatives (McKenzie, 2004; Cocklin & Dibden [ed], 2005). Within a general focus on rural schooling, we are particularly concerned with the issue of rural (teacher) education and the practice of sustainable educational (school) communities for rural-regional sustainability more generally. How to understand the rural as complex social space is the focus of this paper. We explore here the theoretical parameters of TERRAnova as an ARC Discovery Project 1 that aims to describe and theorise successful teacher education strategies (both pre- and in-service) that appear to assist in making rural teaching an attractive, long-term |
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