Brennan, Marie (2006) Infrastructure supporting teachers in the country: questions of equity arising from downsizing and restructuring. Education in Rural Australia, 16 (1). pp. 3-12. ISSN 1036-0026

Abstract

In this paper, the particular role of 'educational infrastructure' in rural areas is explored, with particular emphasis on what occurs for teacher professionalism as a consequence of this erosion of centralised provision. Most professional activities have been strongly reliant on different forms of infrastructure - largely invisible and taken for granted until it has been removed. Infrastructure includes, in this instance, education department provision of in-service activities, curriculum development consultation and support services such as educational advisors. While it is true that certain monies have been transferred to local school sites for the purposes of professional development for staff and school communities, the effect of the standardised budget system and the lack of attention to rural and regional issues, it is argued, suggest that new forms of inequality and discrimination within state education systems are emerging.

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