Rød, Daniel Andre Voll (2018): “Work experiences among teachers in Rural Northern Norway”.
Paper presented at the Nordic Conference for Rural Research, Billund, Denmark, May 2018.
Abstract:
Place matters in education; rural schools are mostly overlooked in favor of urban or semi-urban schools
in education research and students at rural schools are underachievers. Teachers are a key factor in student attainment, and this PhD project will focus on the work experiences, motivations and limitations
teachers in rural contexts experience, and to see whether the variables above affects the learning environment and academic results of students. I am also interested in practice among the teachers in rural schools, and if they align or are at odds with local identity and ideas of the good life, as well as structural, cultural or social processes related to the place, its community and its students. The choice of method for this PhD project is qualitative interviews with the teachers and participant observation within two communities in Northern Norway with startup in January 2018.