Melyssa Fuqua
Biographic Data
| ID | 9605637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melyssa Fuqua |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melyssa |
| FAMILY NAME | Fuqua |
| SIGNATURE | FUQUA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0713-8646 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘Selling’ the rural to pre-service teachers
Teacher Engagement in Rural Sporting Clubs
Community engagement is a critical aspect of rural teacher recruitment, retention, and preservice placements. To better understand what community engagement may be for teachers, this article explores why rural teachers engage or do not engage with their local sporting club. The study, set in a small town in rural Australia, uses a semi-autoethnographic approach, combining personal experiences with fieldwork and interviews. Rural teachers’ engagem…
Bridging and bonding social capital in place-based rural careers advising
Research studies continue to document the inequitable access to quality careers education and guidance for rural Australian youth, raising questions about these programs in rural schools. A significant proportion of the existing rural careers education and guidance literature focuses on factors of students’ decision-making, with little attention on the role of the careers advisor. This article explores how rural careers advisors develop and lever…
Creating a R.A.F.T to engage teenage parents back into education
Through the use of a case study, this paper explores the provision of educational and support services to a group of marginalized young parents in Melbourne, Australia. Teenage parents present as a vulnerable population, and are at risk of becoming socially, economically and culturally disadvantaged. However, young parent support programs, such as the program under study in this project, act as rafts, providing a much-needed lifeline to student p…
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Creating a R.A.F.T to engage teenage parents back into education
Through the use of a case study, this paper explores the provision of educational and support services to a group of marginalized young parents in Melbourne, Australia. Teenage parents present as a vulnerable population, and are at risk of becoming socially, economically and culturally disadvantaged. However, young parent support programs, such as the program under study in this project, act as rafts, providing a much-needed lifeline to student p…
Teacher Engagement in Rural Sporting Clubs
Community engagement is a critical aspect of rural teacher recruitment, retention, and preservice placements. To better understand what community engagement may be for teachers, this article explores why rural teachers engage or do not engage with their local sporting club. The study, set in a small town in rural Australia, uses a semi-autoethnographic approach, combining personal experiences with fieldwork and interviews. Rural teachers’ engagem…
Bridging and bonding social capital in place-based rural careers advising
Research studies continue to document the inequitable access to quality careers education and guidance for rural Australian youth, raising questions about these programs in rural schools. A significant proportion of the existing rural careers education and guidance literature focuses on factors of students’ decision-making, with little attention on the role of the careers advisor. This article explores how rural careers advisors develop and lever…
‘Selling’ the rural to pre-service teachers
Indigenous and Place-Based Education (3 works) · Outdoor and Experiential Education (2 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Rural area (2 works) · Rural management (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Civic engagement (1 work) · Club (1 work)