Communities of practice reshaping training partnerships in Australian vocational education and training

The second World Congress of Colleges and Polytechnics was held in Melbourne, Australia in March 2002. The Congress explored outcomes aligned to themes of accessibility, technology and globalisation, strengthening partnerships and youth as a vocational education and training (VET) customer. This paper was presented under the theme of strengthening partnerships and as part of the workshop on collaborating to succeed. It reports on the findings from an innovative, national program which involved the use of Communities of Practice across a range of different settings. Sixteen Communities of Practice were established in the VET sector in 2001 by Reframing the Future, the national staff development and change management program. The paper describes the 2001 project and its evaluation, focusing on two case studies of partnerships between training providers and industry. The full evaluation report, entitled ‘The potential for Communities of Practice to underpin the National Training Framework’ is indexed at TD/RTF 95.10.

The volume of conference papers is indexed at TD/TNC 71.726; selected papers are indexed from TD/TNC 71.727 to TD/TNC 71.766. Show less