“…Studies of teachers in non-metropolitan areas (Boylan & McSwan, 1998;Frid, Smith, Sparrow, & Trinidad, 2008;Handal, Watson, Petocz, & Maher, 2013;Plunkett & Dyson, 2011;Sharplin, 2014;Sharplin, O'Neill, & Chapman, 2010), and teachers in indigenous communities (Harrington, 2013;Harrington & Brasche, 2011) are also represented in the literature, as well as a further study that fits into both of these classifications (Hall, 2012). While 'regional', 'rural' and 'remote' are all terms used in the literature, the term 'nonmetropolitan' was used in one study to cover all of these definitions.…”