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Internationally, and in Australia, preparation to teach in rural areas has been one widely recognised weakness of contemporary teacher education (Altbach, Reisberg & Rumbley, 2009; Kline, White & Locke, 2013; Lyons, Choi & McPhan, 2009). The term rural, often broadly used to denote a range of areas away from cities, is defined in Australian government statistics in terms of distance to be travelled to urban services (Baxter & Gray, 2011).
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Ryan, J. (2014). Linking Rural and Regional Communities into Teacher Education. In: Jones, M., Ryan, J. (eds) Successful Teacher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-677-6_4
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