Symposium Proceedings
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The complete symposium proceedings is now available. Please click here to download.
A list of conference presenters and papers follows:
Keynote Papers
| Author | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Patricia Hardré | Nurturing the Rural Teacher Experience: Lessons from the United States |
| Youn-Kee Im | Towards New Directions for Korean Rural Education Policy |
| Dennis Mulcahy | Developing Government Policies for Successful Rural Education in Canada |
| John Pegg | Lessons Learnt: Implications of Four Large-Scale SiMERR Projects for Rural Education in Australia |
| Karl Jan Solstad | The Impact of Globalisation on Small Communities and Small Schools in Europe |
Refereed Papers
| Authors | Paper title |
|---|---|
| Myung-Sook Auh & John Pegg | Improving Professional Learning in Rural Areas: Implications for teacher education practice from Australia and Korea |
| Pam Bartholomaeus | The Potential of Place-based Education to Enhance Rural Students’ Educational Experiences |
| Tania Broadley, Don Boyd & Emma Terry | The Hot Topic Community: Videoconferencing to reduce the professional isolation of teachers in rural Western Australia |
| Coral Campbell & Damian Blake | Developing a Science Challenge to Support Partnerships and Pedagogy in Rural and Regional Science |
| Joon-Yul Choi | Clustering Rural Schools in Korea |
| Michael Corbett | How Will This Make Me a Better Teacher?: Theory, literacy learning, and survival |
| Linley Cornish | Situating Practice in Rural Schools: Transience, adaptation and opportunity |
| Linley Cornish | Teaching the World’s Children: Theory and practice in mixed-grade classes |
| Warren Halloway & T.W. Maxwell | Giving Continuing Professional Education More Impact: Adding Bhutan-related classroom practices in Australia and action research in Bhutan to the Bhutanese Multigrade Attachment Program (BMAP) – participants’ perspectives |
| R. John Halsey | “Teaching in the Country Would Not Be So Bad”: How much does it cost to find out? |
| Constance Khupe, Moyra Keane & Ann Cameron | Education, Relevance and Rural Development |
| Ron Laura & Susen Smith | The Reenchantment of Science Education: Towards a new vision of engaging rural gifted children in science |
| Terry Lyons | Teachers’ Motivations for Working in Rural Schools |
| Catherine McLoughlin, Ramona Meyricke & Jill Burgess | Bullies in Cyberspace: How rural and regional Australian youth perceive the problem of cyberbullying and its impact |
| Sam-Chul Park | Effects of School Location on the Shaping of School Organisation Culture in Korea |
| Chris Reading | Social Computing: Reducing isolation in remote Australian schools |
| Elaine Sharplin | Getting Them Out There: A rural education field trip |
| Elaine Sharplin | Quality of Worklife for Rural and Remote Teachers; A model of protective and risk factors |
| Susen Smith & Raymond Smith | Enhancing Rural and Regional Gifted Student Experiences: Exemplars of innovative enrichment practice |
| Cherry Stewart | Capturing Their Imagination: Strategies for stakeholder communication when implementing innovation in rural education |
| Sue Trinidad & Tania Broadley | Building Sustainable Education in Science, Mathematics and Technology Education in Western Australia |
| Sue Trinidad | Using Social Computing Tools to Connect Regional and Remote Teachers and Students in Western Australia |
Presentations based on abstracts only
| Author | Presentation title |
|---|---|
| Jennifer Andrews, Michael Wilson & Joseph Bell |
EGATS! Our Places, Our Spaces |
| Dagmar Arthur | Comparing the Performance of Rural and Metropolitan Schools on a State Wide Science Test in New South Wales |
| Duncan Barrie | Technology: Improving resources in rural schools |
| Sue Belford | Boys Building Together |
| Sue Belford & Dale Cain | Superheroes In Technology |
| Sue Belford, Dale Cain & Mike Tom | Using Collaborative Technologies to Optimise Curriculum Outcomes for Small Rural Schools |
| Hudsen Birden & Sue Page | Rural Medical Education on the North Coast |
| Young-Wa Choi & Hee-Chan Lew | The Effect of "Cyber Home School" on Korean Students' Mathematics Achievement |
| Vincent Connor | Senior Secondary Mathematics and Science Lesson Study Using Remote learning teams |
| Vincent Connor | Answering the Needs of Teachers Who Teach K - 6 Grammar: A professional development model for rural and regional schools and systems |
| Maxine Cooper, Jo-Anne Reid, Bill Green, Wendy Hastings, Graeme Lock & Simone White | Encouraging and Nurturing Teachers in Small Rural Communities in Australia |
| Stephen Crump | E-learning for Rural and Isolated Australians: Satellite delivery and improving outcomes |
| Alison Elliot & Brenda Keenan | Growing Our Own: Teacher Education for Remote Indigenous Communities in the Northern Territory |
| Marian Heard & Leanne Parker | Scientists in Schools: A rural focus |
| Joanne Jefferson | QuickSmart Numeracy: Closing the gap in the Northern Territory |
| Sally Mackander | Katherine School of the Air Quicksmart Trial 2008 |
| Greg McPhan | Developing context-based Learning Sequences in Science: Insights into the professional development needs of rural and regional teachers |
| Brendan Maher & Shelly Riddell | Enhancing Curriculum Choices in Vocational Education for Isolated Rural Secondary Students |
| Peter Merrotsy | The Education of Gifted Students in Rural Contexts |
| Mark Monaghan | Freeing Working Memory to Enhance Student Growth |
| Russell Tytler, David Symington, Valda Kirkwood & Cliff Malcom | Innovation in School Science through School – Community Links: Learning from the rural experience |
| Russell Tytler, Cliff Malcom, David Symington & Valda Kirkwood | Professional Development Provision for Teachers of Science and Mathematics in Rural and Regional Victoria |
| Darron Watt & Jean Dyason | Interactive Pedagogy – the four Ps |
