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Bush Tracks The Opportunities and Challenges of Rural Teaching and Leadership
Edited by Lorraine Graham University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and Judith Miller University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
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Table of Contents
1. A Model for Collaborative Research Lorraine Graham and Judith Miller
1
2. History and Context of Our Research Linley Cornish
11
3. Methodologies: Exploring the Intimate Genevieve Noone and Judith Miller
25
4. Listening to Teachers in the ‘Bush’ Kathy Jenkins, Neil Taylor and Paul Reitano
41
5. Imagining a Teacher-Place Assemblage Genevieve Noone
57
6. Affectual Language in Teachers’ Talk Joy Hardy
79
7. Accelerated Leadership in Rural Schools Lorraine Graham, Judith Miller and David Paterson
91
8. Late-Career Women Leaders in Rural Schools Judith Miller, Lorraine Graham and Azhar Al-Awiwe
105
9. Teaching Principals’ Stories Kathy Jenkins and Paul Reitano
119
10. Teaching Principals: The ‘I’s Have It! Linley Cornish and Kathy Jenkins
135
11. Taking the Bush Track Home Judith Miller and Lorraine Graham
157
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Lorraine Graham and Judith Miller
1. A Model for Collaborative Research
Introduction
This chapter describes the formation and trajectory of the Bush Tracks (BT) Research Group. The contemporary educational background and principles that guided the group are outlined, followed by the identification of values shared by members that underpinned the group’s productive research process and dissemination of outcomes. Supportive leadership is identified as an important factor underpinning the success of Bush Tracks. In addition, mentoring and collaborative opportunities over more than a decade of research activity contributed to the success of the group, with continuing research relationships between members proving to be an enduring legacy. In recent years, the positive collegial values practised as part of Bush Tracks have seeded a faculty-wide approach to enhancing research culture within a regional university. In this instance, the ways of working together developed by the Bush Tracks Research Group were taken as a blueprint for encouraging innovative and collegial research practice. Background
The Bush Tracks Research Group formed in late 2002 withi
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