Communities of learning, communities of practice: proceedings of the 43rd Annual National Conference of Adult Learning Australia

The Annual National Conference of Adult Learning Australia serves as a forum for practitioners and researchers to discuss aspects of adult education and learning. The theme for the 43rd conference, held at the Broadway Campus of the University of Technology Sydney from 27-30 November 2003, was ‘Communities of learning: communities of practice’. The papers from this volume of proceedings address the issues suggested by the theme, which include aspects of learning in the family, learning at work and learning in the community, as well as cross-cutting aspects of Indigenous adult learning and older learners. The papers are: A narrative approach to transformative learning / Judi Apte (p. 1-9); Communities of practice in adult learning, the Byron Knowledge Management Project / Mitra Ardron and Jim Nicholls (p. 10-21); Lithgow: first learning city in N.S.W. - developing a learning city in a mining/industrial community / Debbie Best (p. 22-30); Adult education’s hidden history: interrogating the ‘great tradition’ / Bob Boughton (p. 31-40); An example of communities of learning, communities of practice / Barrie Brennan (p. 41-49); Building effective exclusive classrooms through supporting the professional learning of special needs teacher assistants / Carolyn Broadbent and Jill Burgess (p. 50-59); The Arts as a catalyst for improved learning outcomes for youth in detention / Carolyn Broadbent (p. 60-67); Studying the work-related learning of adult educators: communities of practice, communities of learning / Mike Brown (p. 68-81); Probationary constables and their journey through a community of practice / Pam Carden and Roger Harris (p. 82-92); In-credible education: searching for educational credibility in a uniformed workplace / Phill Chambers and Claire Lewin (p. 93-105); Action learning as an approach to staff development in tertiary education / Rosemary Chang, Kathleen Gray, Alison Jansz-Senn, Paul Sendziuk and Alex Radloff (p. 106-118); Paradox of the learning giant / Lucie Crawford (p. 119-129); PhD journey: some shared experiences / Lucie Crawford (p. 130-142); Enhancing meaning through the Arts: connecting people, cultures, communities / Melany Cueva and Regina Kuhnley (p. 143-146); Connecting Alaska communities, supporting cross cultural communication: teaching a university course by telephone / Melany Cueva, Regina Kuhnley and Linda Curda (p. 147-151); Learning ‘soft sciences’ in a hard environment: some approaches to education about depression in disconfirming workplaces / Lisa Davies (p. 152-163); Exploring and utilising communities of practice to foster workplace learning: examples from the Hepatitis C sector / Catriona Elek, Rob Wilkins and Sallie Cairnduff (p. 164-179); Older adults’ communities of learning practice / Brian Findsen (p. 180-197); Older rural men - learning for change / Ros Foskey and Alan Avery (p. 198-212); To train or to teach? / Daryl Gauld (p. 213-236); Learning within different communities of practice: the case of apprenticeships / Roger Harris, Peter Willis and Pam Carden (p. 237-245); Critical requirements for changing corporate training departments toward supporting workplace learning and performance / John A. Henschke (p. 246-257); I never say I’m a workbased learning coordinator! / Valerie Ingham and Gabriela Martinez (p. 258-268); The realities of Aboriginal adult literacy acquisition and practice: implications for remote community capacity building / Inge Kral and R. G. (Jerry) Schwab (p. 269-287); Authentic education in the manner ‘A’ with ‘B’ / Elyssebeth Leigh and Leanne King (p. 288-296); The experience so far / Mal McCullogh, Rob Carolane and Bernadette Hetherington (p. 297-311); Involvement of VET in learning communities: relevance for urban areas / Bernice Melville (p. 312-323); Wobbly words: the industrial workers of the world and their use of ballads and verse as radical adult education / Teri Merlyn (p. 324-337); Lifelong learning in theory: but small business learning in practice / Karen Plane (p. 338-359); Contested communities of practice: who learns in aged care? / Margaret Somerville (p. 360-371); When a community of practice is not a community of learning: a migrant woman’s story / Sumiko Taniguch (p. 372-382); Keeping communities of practice alive! / Sylvie Vanasse and Amy Poynton (p. 383-392); The team-teaching approach in teaching foreign language skills - a Taiwanese experience / Rouh-jii Wu and Sheng-Hsiang Li (p. 393-402); Learning by doing it: a reflection on a subject delivery / Jane Qinjuan Zhang (p. 403-408). Show less