<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The last Australian government review on rural education reveals that staffing schools continues to be a challenge. To examine this problem, the paper draws on data from semi-structured interviews with pre-service teachers undertaking rural school placement. The aim is to address rural school staffing through a bi-dimensional social justice approach by drawing on a politics of distribution and recognition. While distributive justice has always been at the centre of the problem, it is argued that a solution might also encompass a politics of recognition that puts “place” as a significant category to understand the complexities of rural staffing.</p></abstract>

The last Australian government review on rural education reveals that staffing schools continues to be a challenge. To examine this problem, the paper draws on data from semi-structured interviews with pre-service teachers undertaking rural school placement. The aim is to address rural school staffing through a bi-dimensional social justice approach by drawing on a politics of distribution and recognition. While distributive justice has always been at the centre of the problem, it is argued that a solution might also encompass a politics of recognition that puts “place” as a significant category to understand the complexities of rural staffing.

A social justice approach to rural school staffing: The need for a politics of distribution and recognition to solve a perennial problem

Journal of Pedagogy

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The last Australian government review on rural education reveals that staffing schools continues to be a challenge. To examine this problem, the paper draws on...

A social justice approach to rural school staffing: The need for a politics of distribution and recognition to solve a perennial problem

Published Online: Jul 17, 2020

Page range: 127 - 146

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jped-2020-0007

Keywords
rural education, social justice, pre-service teachers, politics of distribution, politics of recognition

© 2020 Hernán Cuervo, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

A social justice approach to rural school staffing: The need for a politics of distribution and recognition to solve a perennial problem

Published Online: Jul 17, 2020

Page range: 127 - 146

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jped-2020-0007

Keywordsrural education, social justice, pre-service teachers, politics of distribution, politics of recognition

© 2020 Hernán Cuervo, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
rural education, social justice, pre-service teachers, politics of distribution, politics of recognition