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Learning Communities Symposium
A learning community two years on: Reflecting on successes and framing futures
Catherine Arden, Trevor Cooper, Kathryn McLachlan & Sheila Stebbings
University of Southern Queensland; Stanthorpe Shire Council; Community Development Services Inc; Stanthorpe Shire Library
Catherine is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Southern Queensland, specialising in adult and vocational education and training and lifelong learning. Her research interests include the application of transformative, experiential and blended learning methodologies to promote lifelong learning for individuals and support the development of rural communities.
Kathryn is a Community Development Worker for a non-government organisation in a small rural town in Southern Qld, working to build community capacity through self-empowerment. Underpinning this is a committment to promoting the principles of lifelong learning, through civic engagement and participatory action learning, using a systems thinking approach.
Look what the tide brought in: the tensions and opportunities within seachange learning communities.
Geoff Danaher
Central Queensland University
Geoff Danaher teaches in the STEPS bridging program at Central Queensland University, and is a co-editor of the international scholarly journal, Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development. He has research interests in regional communities, cultural theory and comedy.
Online learning communities: Adopting a learner centred perspective to frame lifelong learning futures
Dolene Rossi
Central Queensland University, University of Southern Queensland
Dolene is a lecturer at CQU and PhD candidate within the Faculty of Education at USQ. She is a registered nurse, midwife, community nurse and nurse educator with a MSc in International Health and a PGCE. Research interests include health promotion, adult education, interaction and knowledge construction in online environments.
I’m not alone: first year course leaders helped through communities of practice.
Michael Sankey & Jill Lawrence
University of Southern Queensland
Michael is a Senior Lecturer in the Learning and Teaching Support Unit at the USQ. His research focuses on two main areas, how to best engage students and staff in the learning process, as calibrators, and how to best use technology enhanced learning environments to augment learning opportunities for students, particularly DE students.
Living and learning: communities of practice re-engaging young mothers through vocational education.
Hilary Timma
Charles Sturt University
Hilary Timma has a background in the Hospitality industry and teaching in VET. She has worked as a workplace trainer and assessor in the Food Processing industry and has taught on campus and distance education students at university. Currently, she is teaching and developing learning materials with CSU-Training.
Framing futures through notions of a particular community of practice: what TAFE teachers said.
Mark Tyler
University of Southern Queensland
Formally a community and human service worker and TAFE teacher, Mark crossed the great post-compulsory divide and joined academia on a full-time basis at the University of Southern Queensland in 2004. Mark's academic interests lie in critical spirit, criticality, teacher identities, alternative dispute resolution, teaching in VTE, lifelong learning, and workplace learning.
Teleological pressures and ateleological possibilites on and for a fragile learning community: Implications for framing lifelong learning futures for Australian university academics
Patrick Danaher
University of Southern Queensland
Patrick Danaher is Associate Professor (Education Research) in the Faculty of Education at the Toowoomba campus of the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. His research interests include Traveller education; educational research ethics and politics; and educators’ work and identities. He is the co-author of _Teaching Traveller Children_ (Trentham Books, 2007).
