Lack of Men, Flame Throwers and Rabbit Drives: Student Life in Australia's First Rural Teachers College 1945-1955

Autor/in	Potts, Anthony
Titel	Lack of Men, Flame Throwers and Rabbit Drives: Student Life in Australia's First Rural Teachers College 1945-1955
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 37 (2012) 7, Artikel 4 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0313-5373
Schlagwörter	Student Attitudes; Rural Education; Foreign Countries; Schools of Education; Rural Schools; Teaching (Occupation); Teacher Education; Males; Females; Rural Areas; Higher Education; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schülerverhalten; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Ausland; Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Teaching; Lehrberuf; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Weibliches Geschlecht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Australien
Abstract	This article examines student life in an Australian rural teachers college. The paper is informed by studies on university student life and extends these to Australia's first rural teachers college in the period 1945-1955. It explores the diversity of students' experiences in a small college with predominately female students gradually supplemented by male students. It looks at staff student relations in a college struggling to train teachers for rural Australian towns in the immediate post World War II period. While these rural students' lives were similar to those portrayed in the standard histories of teacher education students were well aware of the basic nature of the curriculum and were not uncritical of it. However, they viewed what was offered as feasible given the circumstances. Their life at college was broadening and fulfilling and led to rewarding careers that enabled them to make not insignificant contributions to the teaching profession. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Edith Cowan University. Bradford Street, Mount Lawley, West Australia 6050, Australia. Web site: http://ro.ecu.edu.au/ajte/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10