Schooling elsewhere: rurality, inclusion and education

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Notes on contributors

Barbara Pini is a Professor in the School of Humanities at Griffith University. She has an extensive research record in the area of rural social research.

Suzanne Carrington is a Professor and Head of School in the Faculty of Education at the Queensland University of Technology. She researches and publishes in the area of inclusive education.

Lenore Adie is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Queensland University of Technology. Her interests focus on teachers’ work and the understanding of context from a sociocultural perspective, especially in the area of pedagogy and assessment.

Notes

1 This phenomenon was first pointed out to us by colleagues at QUT, namely Margaret Grace, June Lennie, Leonie Daws and Lyn Simpson. In turn, it was a practice that they became aware of from rural women when undertaking innovative research on new information and communication technologies and rural women (see Grace and Lennie 1998; Grace 1997; Daws et al. 2002). They found the metaphor so salient that they used it in the title of the report on their findings (see Grace, Daws and Lundin 1996; Grace and Lennie 2002).