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- Title: An Exploration of Issues in the Attraction and Retention of Teachers to Non-Metropolitan Schools in Western Australia (Report)
- Author : Education in Rural Australia
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 233 KB
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INTRODUCTION A major concern in education in Australia is that of the attraction and retention of teachers to regional, rural and remote areas. At a national level, there have been many reports of teacher shortages in these locations (e.g., Committee for the Review of Teaching and Teacher Education, 2003; Lyons et al., 2006a; Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA), 2003). A related fundamental issue is that teacher education in Australia is predominantly metropolitan in character, "mostly carried out in large, metropolitan institutions" (Skilbeck & Connell, 2003, p. 20). More recently, Lyons et al. (2006b) reported that nationally within Australia "teachers tended to gain employment in locations similar to those in which they lived while undertaking pre-service education" (p.v). An implication of this statement is that states such as Western Australia, where this study was conducted, face additional challenges in attracting graduates to regional, rural and remote locations because almost all teacher education programmes in the state are based in the capital city of Perth. While it is imperative that universities and governments address this challenge and further develop teacher education programmes that are accessible to a wide range of students outside the Perth metropolitan area, it is also important to know more about the demographics of recent graduates.
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