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Urban disadvantage and learning communities: forum paper: building dynamic learning communities in regional Australia: the role of VET

This paper is part of a project designed to investigate the extent to which urban communities that include significant populations of disadvantaged citizens are engaging in community-based strategies centred on learning and the contribution of vocational education and training (VET) organisations. The project included a research forum on urban disadvantage and learning communities at which invited speakers were asked to contribute an account of their experience and understanding of learning communities to a ‘focus on implications for the role of VET in building learning communities’. The author discusses a longitudinal study of the role of VET in 10 sites in regional Australia that has highlighted the benefits of a collaborative approach to planning and delivering training.

This paper is part of a project designed to investigate the extent to which urban communities that include significant ...  Show Full Abstract  

Authors: Kilpatrick, Sue
Corporate authors: University of Technology, Sydney. Australian Centre for Organisational, Vocational and Adult Learning (OVAL Research)
Date: 2003
Geographic subjects: Oceania; Australia
Resource type: Working paper
Series name: OVAL research working paper
Subjects: Vocational education and training; Disadvantaged; Research;
Statistics; Teaching and learning; Providers of education and training; Participation; Economics; Culture; Demographics show more

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