2022
DOI: 10.47381/aijre.v32i1.314
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Australian Remote Education Tutors and Universities: Proposed Innovative Partnerships for Credentialling Adult Supervisors of School Students Enrolled in Distance Education

Abstract: Currently, an almost exclusively female workforce provides the government mandated adult supervision of Australian primary and secondary school students enrolled in distance education, including geographically isolated learners. These Remote Education Tutors (RETs) include unpaid family support providers and externally employed governesses and home tutors who are paid by the children's families. This crucial position has no prerequisite qualifications, which in turn generates occupational invisibility and an a… Show more

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“…The work of RETs has been classified into four role categories according to the types of everyday tasks carried out in the schoolroom (Downes, 2013 ; ICPA, 2015 ). The four categories include organise, communicate, teach and manage (McLennan et al, 2022 ). These categories align with the practices that were identified by Downes ( 2013 ), who researched the role of parental supervision in geographically isolated locations.…”
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“…The work of RETs has been classified into four role categories according to the types of everyday tasks carried out in the schoolroom (Downes, 2013 ; ICPA, 2015 ). The four categories include organise, communicate, teach and manage (McLennan et al, 2022 ). These categories align with the practices that were identified by Downes ( 2013 ), who researched the role of parental supervision in geographically isolated locations.…”
Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The delivery of this distance education curriculum cannot be achieved without the commitment of the Remote Education Tutor (RET), who is accountable for the face-to-face adult supervision and educational support of distance education learners (Downes et al, 2020 ; ICPA, 2015 ; Newman, 2014 ). This almost exclusively female workforce of home based educators includes two distinct groups: mothers or parent tutors , who supervise their own children’s education, known as immediate family tutors; and governesses who are externally employed in a paid supervisory position (McLennan et al, 2022 ). The RET role is crucial for distance education students, yet there is little research to understand this occupation (Downes, 2013 ; Newman, 2014 ).…”
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