Self-studies in Rural Teacher Education

“Self-studies in Rural Teacher Education provides audiences with an engaging, international perspective into the use of self-study in research and practice in rural settings. Researchers will find the volume useful in its description of the current state of self-studies in educational practice; the citations in each chapter offer a wealth of resources. Teacher educators will find the book useful for the case studies of teaching in rural settings; the descriptions provide discussion points for classes engaged in teacher education.” (Casey Thomas Jakubowski, Journal of Research in Rural Education, Vol. 31 (1), 2016)

• 1. Introduction. Bernadette Walker-Gibbs and Ann K. Schulte.- Part 1 Rediscovering Rural Identities.- 2. Looking for My Rural Identity, Finding Community and Place. Ann K. Schulte.- 3. A Road Less Travelled: Becoming a Rural Teacher Educator. Simone White.- 4. Notions of Place, Space and Identity in Rural Teacher Education. Bernadette Walker-Gibbs.- 5. Getting Some ‘Good’ Teachers in the Bush. Gaelene Hope-Rowe.- Part 2 Notions of Rural as Heaven or Hell.- 6. Unpacking Multiple Realities of Rural School Politics. Nathan D. Brubaker.- 7. ‘Knowing the rules of the game’: Rural Sporting Biographies and Their Influence on Physical Education Pedagogy. Amanda Mooney and Chris Hickey.- Part 3 Impact of International Identities on Understandings of Rural Places.- 8. Reading Lefebvre From Here: Thinking Globally about the Rural. Michael Corbett.- 9. “Becoming” Teacher Education Researchers in Diverse Rural Communities. Jodie Kline and Sri Soejatminah.- 10. Dry Stone Walls, Black Stumps and the Mobilisation of Professional Learning: Rural Places and Spaces and Teachers’ Self-Study Strategies in Ireland and Australia. Máirín Kenny, R. E. (Bobby) Harreveld and P. A. (Patrick) Danaher.