Families and Educators in Remote Queensland: Sense of Place in the Delivery of a Remote Kindergarten Program

Autor/inn/en	Dockett, Sue; Perry, Bob
Titel	Families and Educators in Remote Queensland: Sense of Place in the Delivery of a Remote Kindergarten Program
Quelle	In: Australian Educational Researcher, 48 (2021) 3, S.467-484 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Dockett, Sue) ORCID (Perry, Bob)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0311-6999
DOI	10.1007/s13384-020-00401-z
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Kindergarten; Rural Education; Teacher Attitudes; Family Attitudes; Access to Education; Sense of Community; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Lehrerverhalten; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Australien
Abstract	While many remote places in Queensland, Australia have access to schools, very few have provision for preschool education. Recent efforts to change this have included the development of a kindergarten program delivered through the local school. An impact assessment undertaken in 2017 involved visiting 30 remote sites offering the program. Analysis of interview data indicated the importance of sense of place in the delivery of this program. Educators and family members were overwhelmingly supportive of the option of a kindergarten program in their sites, regarding it as an equity and social justice imperative to provide access to programs that seem to be taken-for-granted for children and families in urban and regional locations. The potential for the program to enhance social interactions and educational outcomes was highlighted, even when educators noted a range of challenges in the implementation of the program. Sense of place and the positioning of educators and families are explored in the paper. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01