Rural retreat or outback hell: Expectations of rural and remote teaching

Issues in Educational Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 49-63

  Sharplin, Elaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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