Author(s)

Chunmeng Yang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Education Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui, China

Corresponding Author

Chunmeng Yang

ABSTRACT

The construction of rural teachers is an important tool for realizing the quality and balanced development of urban and rural education, which has long been facing the governance predicament of "unable to get down, unable to stay, and unable to teach well", but under the leadership of the spatial turn, we have begun to incorporate the rural field itself into the research field as a key explanatory variable. Based on the theoretical framework of material space, spiritual space and social space of the spatial triadic dialectic, it is found that there is a problem of low utilization of modern equipment in the material space; teachers' mobility and turnover are strong in the spiritual space, and their professional stability is worrying; and the separation of work and life in the social space has seriously weakened teachers' sense of belonging. The reasons for this are the lack of rural teachers' ability to use modern equipment, short-sighted policies, and the urban-rural dichotomy, which have led to the difficulties in each spatial dimension. The solution to the problem of rural teachers should be sought in the construction of meaningful physical space, the construction of highly identifiable spiritual space and the shaping of a close-knit social space.

KEYWORDS

Spatial triadic dialectics; rural teacher development; spatial dilemma; spatial causes; spatial relief

CITE THIS PAPER

Chunmeng Yang, The Spatial Dilemma of Rural Teacher Team Building and Its Resolution. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2025) Vol. 9: 23-34. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2025.090504.

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