Archives
Program summaries for Learning Works, and for selected programs, some additional resources for listeners to follow up on the program.
Balancing Work in our Lives; Movie Review - Avatar; Literacy – Working with First Nation People; Northern Lights – An Adelaide Festival of Arts Event.
A Unique Art History Course; Hollywood’s First Australian – Part 2; Informal Learning; Shake Your Family Tree; E-Learning for Workplace Training; A Good Read - Espalier; Abilities for All – 128 Success Stories; A Bilingual Everyday Australian English Picture Dictionary.
Hollywood’s First Australian – Part 1; Meet Music Maker Andy Salvanos; Australia Day – Western Australia’s Early Dutch and French Explorers.
Building Literacy and Numeracy Skills in Indigenous Communities; A good read: Twilight.
The Law: Young People, Parents and Schools. Program 10; Six – A DVD on issues facing many young men; The Grammar Disk – Pah!; Cyber-bullying: Helping young people regain their sense of self worth; Commentary – Professor Gavin Brown.
The Law: Young People, Parents and Schools. Program 6-9; Selia’s Learning Journey; “The limit of my world is the limit of my language!”; A Good Read – Aaron Blabey: Children’s Picture Book Author; Numeracy teaching – Value free and culture free?; WELL Project – Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia; Film Review – Mao’s Last Dancer.
The Law: Young People, Parents and Schools. Program 1-5; Learning Journeys - Barriers to Learning; Learning Communities – The Hume Global Learning Village; Film Review: Inglourious Basterds; A Good Read – In the Land of Invisible Women.
Communication Skills for Engineers; Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination; Mental Health First Aid – Award Winning Program; Adult Learners Week at Tea Tree Gully; A Day in Pompeii; Learning Journeys – Elizabeth Chenoweth; Three Learning Communities in SA; An Interview with the Minister - The Honourable Michael O’Brien MP, South Australia’s Minister for Employment, Training and Further Education; The Law: Young People, Parents and Schools. Program 1.
Training and Skills in the Mining Industry; Retaining your Volunteers; A Good Read – President Obama: The Path to the White House; Adult Learners Week Project, through the Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Be Active – All Ages; So what is Air Gondwana?
Building Better Boards – Program 5 of 5; Learning to be drier! A not-to-be-missed interview; Port Lincoln’s Community House; Building Public Speaking Skills; A Good Read - “The Name of the Wind” by Patrick Rothfuss; Older Men’s Learning.
Building Better Boards – Program 1-4 of 5; Let’s Talk Secret Codes – Program 2 of 7; Film Review - Duplicity; Falls Prevention – an Education Strategy; A Good Read – October, by Richard B Wright; The 2008 Ministerial Declaration on Adult Community Education; Film Review – Angels and Demons; Broadband for Seniors.
How to get your school moving and improving; The Chelsea – Another Supermarket?; What do students expect of their lecturers?; The Economic Value of the ACE Sector; A Good Read – The Second Half of Life; Conversational English; Let’s Talk Secret Codes – Program 1 of 7; A Radio Celebration – Sir Douglas Mawson.
In the Aftermath of Tragedy - Role of Neighbourhood Houses in Victoria; Medical Decision Making – Young People (Part 3 of 3); Cinema Reviews: Slum Dog Millionaire; The Compulsory Education Age in South Australia; Mawson Lakes – A Learning Community; Meet Dawn Kelson – Coordinator, Gawler Community House; Homelessness - A Reality for Many Young People; The Market and the Dance – Informal Learning in Action; A Good Read – The Librarian; Bobby Dazzler – Celebrating the Helpmann Centenary; Three Dog Night – Meet author Peter Goldsworthy; Two movies directed by Clint Eastwood – Gran Torino and Changling.
Hard Times – Some realities for ordinary Australians; Cinema Reviews: I’ve Loved You So Long; So what is flexible delivery of training?; New SACE – Personal Learning Plans; Medical Decision Making – Young People (Parts 1 and 2 of 3); Man Alive Festival 2009; A Good Read #1; Abilities for All – A South Australian Success Story.
Mental Health First Aid; Hans Heysen; Who wouldn’t be happy coming here – Adelaide Botanical Gardens; Convict Hulks.
The Fremantle Men’s Shed; I Still Have It - I just can’t remember where I put it - Confessions of a Fiftysomething, by Rita Rudner; Let’s Talk Secret Codes – Program 7 of 7 - national adult literacy survey; Study Circles (Australia) and Everyday Democracy (USA).
Computing for Seniors - with Nan Bosler OAM; Older Men in Rural Australia; Let’s Talk Secret Codes – Program 5 of 7 – Financial Literacy and Visual Literacy; Community Economic Development – Armadale Western Australia; Film Reviews – Burn After Reading, and Journey to the Centre of the Earth; Supporting Learning Communities; Literacy and the World of Work; Students as Active Citizens - Angus McFarland.
Engaging the Disengaged; Hidden Faces Revealed; Let’s Talk Secret Codes – Program 3 of 7; Connecting Faces, Places and Spaces – Milang Old School House; Film Review – Wall-E.
Perspective – Adult Literacy in Australia Today; The Economic Benefits of Lifelong Learning; Let’s Talk Secret Codes – Program 1 of 7; So what is the Digital Economy?; Film Review – The Bank Job; A visit to Aldinga Community Centre; Connecting Faces, Places and Spaces - Community Learning; Let’s Talk Secret Codes – Program 2 of 7; A Good Read – How Books Help Babies and Toddlers.
The Overseas Chinese Association prepares for Adult Learners Week; The positive side of Psychology; A Good Read – with Sarah Knight; Marion Learning Festival; Learning at Work – on the Farm; More about …….. Learning @ Work; Older workers – we need them in the workplace; Film Review - The Dark Knight; Meet Julia Gane – National Co-ordinator of Adult Learners’ Week; Streets of Learning – Tea Tree Gully; Meet Michelle Rudd – Award-winning visual artist.
My Gambling Story; A Good Read – A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini; The 2008 MacKillop Oration; Celebrating Adult Learners’ Week in Regional SA; Reviews: Get Smart; Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; The Jane Austen Book Club; Mental Health First Aid; Financial Literacy – Making the Most of Your Money.
My Gambling Story; Teaching physics today; Conflict at work and at home - it can be very good for you; Grammar Gremlins; A Good Read - The Marsh Birds, by Eva Sallis (Allen and Unwin).
Film Review; Meet Julie ….. and her note-taker; What’s on in Law Week?; Grammar Gremlins – Parts 1 and 2; Neighbourhood House Week; A Good Read – with Robert Rungkat; Convict Hulks – Life on the Prison Ships; Teacher stress; Film Reviews - Iron Man and The Painted Veil.
Film Review; It’s National Youth Week – Shout, Share, Live, Unite!; Ranking universities; Hidden faces revealed; A good read; Learning to read - in prison; Story-telling - still important today; Developing Innovation in Young People.
International Women's Day - 8 March; Creating workforce diversity; The recent Academy Awards - a reflection; 1995 A W Jones Lecture, delivered by (then) Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue; So what do students expect of lecturers?; A Good Read – Short Stories; From homelessness to university; The railway station that became a church; The positive side of Psychology.
The Reading Writing Hotline; Film Review; Abuse of Elderly People; Learning Journeys 5 (Rpt); Ned Kelly – Australian Legend!; Refugees and Transcultural Health; Building leadership in Australian schools.
Learning Journeys Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 (Rpt); Family Records in Adelaide; Eating Disorders; Glenna's Story - Parts 1 and 2 (Rpt);
My Gambling Story – Parts 5 & 6; Digital Natives?; It’s a Legal Matter – Behind the Wheel - Parts 1 & 2; Keeping the Memory of our World – archives and archivists; Meet SA’s Adult Educator of the Year.
Australia’s Learning Ambassador of the Year – Nan Bosler OAM; Film Reviews; Milang Old School House Community Centre, Co-winner of the Australian Adult Learning Community of the Year in 2007; Mental health and online support; It's a legal matter - behind the wheel - Part 3.
My Gambling Story series; Health literacy; Meet SA's Adult Educator of the Year; Digital photography for people with acquired brain injuries; World Teachers Day - who are our new teachers; Film Reviews - The Bourne Ultimatum and Deborah Kerr; The lighthouse career education project.
Adult Learners’ Week – An Interview with the Minister; Simply the Best - Women in the Records; Celebrating Adult Learners’ Week; Eating Disorders; Glenna’s Story – Part 1.
Family History Week; Movie Reviews; Learningfull Conversations; More on Family History Resources; In Conversation with Anne Deveson; Child safety on the internet – a New Zealand initiative; Finding that Work-life balance!; Ambassadors for Learning.
Calling all visual artists!; What Makes a Good Teacher?; Volunteering in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens; So what is Food Tourism?; Mascapades.
May/June 2007 - program in recess
April 2007
A short history of Ford in Australia - Parts 1 and 2; Meet Aldo Pratali - Parts 5 and 6.
March 2007
Aspects of Ageing - Making your Will;
An e-learning project in Ballarat; Meet Aldo Pratali - Parts 1 to 4; From old bush school to a vibrant community telecentre; Evaluating a mentoring project; Bushranges and Airmen; Film Reviews; Hamlet - still going strong after 400 years.
February 2007
Children, Literacies and New Technologies - with Prof Victoria Carrington;
February Film Review with John McGowan; Heroes and Villains - Australian
Comics and their Creators; Renmark Revisited - Part 1 - Picking up the pieces: A Community's Response; Renmark Revisited - Part 2 - Picking up the pieces: Real men do cry!
January 2007
Special Guest - Dennis Olsen AM; Almost our national anthem - Song of
Australia; Eyes Lies and Illusions!
December 2006
US Army education - learning worldwide; Justice and Legal Issues - Neighbours
- Parts 1 and 2; Film Reviews - Flags of our Fathers, The Departed,
and A Good Year; Social Capital and Lifelong Learning; Supporting men.
November 2006
A Short History of Australia's Wool Industry; Griffith University's
Eco-Centre; Lock it or lose it - bicycle safety; Management Committees
and the Law - Parts 1 and 2; Mawson Lakes students visit Japan; Some
recent books for young people; Cyber bullying.
October 2006
In Conversation with Pru Goward Part 2; Making sense of information
literacy - with Mandy Lupton; Animate Quarterly - a project of the SA
Writers Centre; Resilience Revisited - with Anne Deveson AO; RAW - Real
Adventure Women, with Jill Duffield; Erindale - An Award-winning College
in Canberra, with Bob LeFebvre; Rosewall Neighbourhood House and Community
Shed, Geelong; Learning @ Work - Senator Ursula Stephens; Film Reviews
- The Devil Wears Prada / A Prairie Home Companion; ArtUp! - at the
Tuggeranong Arts Centre.
September 2006
Interview with the Honourable Gary Hardgrave MP; Learning Journeys -
Program 6 - A Men's Shed in Edinburgh SA; Learning Journeys - Program
7 - Florin's story; Meet June Hazzlewood OAM; Film Review - United 93/Snakes
on a Plane; Learning in TAFE - learning at work; Hand - helping Brisbane
people with an intellectual disability; In Conversation with Pru Goward
Part 1.
August 2006
Survive and Revive - at the Women's Community Centre in Adelaide; Learning
Journeys - Part 4 - Learning at Work; National Science Week - with Dr
John Long; Financial Literacy - what is it? - with Catherine Birchall;
Learning Journeys - Part 5 - Streets of Learning; Re-imagining Educational
Leadership - with Professor Brian Caldwell; The early days - a short
history of Geelong.
July 2006
Seven Minute Legal – Come and Live with us Mum –
Programs 7, 8, 9 and 10; Meet Colin Thiele Parts 8 and 9; WorkVentures;
Learning Journeys Part 2 - Virtual First Aid, at Tauondi College; Know
before you go - Children's movie reviews; Learning Journeys - Part 3
- Avon Art and Craft Guild; Film Review - Tristram Shandy; Keeping those
important family records; So what are blogs and what is podcasting.
June 2006
Seven Minute Legal – Come and Live with us Mum –
Programs 3, 4, 5 and 6; A passion for teaching; NetAlert - Keeping your
kids safe online; Meet Colin Thiele Part 7; SA Launch - Adult Learners
Week; Film Reviews - Da Vinci Code, Eight Below and The World’s
Fastest Indian; Learning IT Skills - At a Distance.
May 2006
Meet Colin Thiele parts 3 - 5; Conflict at work and at home; Changing
your world with technology; "I didn't know!" - some legal
and other matters for association officers; Opening doors to the law;
Seven Minute Legal – Come and Live with us Mum –
Programs 1 and 2; Healthy GPs.
April 2006
Diet and prostate cancer; So what is a study circle?; The church in
the vines - Sevenhill; Ignatius Loyola and the early years of the Jesuits
- Br John May SJ; The Jesuits leave Europe in 1848, and the foundation
of Sevenhill - Br John May SJ; Wartburg to Bowden - a faith journey;
Gambling - the real story (repeat); Film Review - A History of Violence;
Meet Colin Thiele - parts 1 and 2; Silver Screen in the Shoalhaven.
March 2006
The changing role of libraries; The academy awards - a reflection; Men’s
Sheds – Older Men’s Learning Spaces and Programs in Australia;
Childhood Obesity and the Media; From Perth to Sydney - by wheelchair.
February 2006
Pooraka Farm Neighbourhood House Quilt; IT Health Checks; Hollywood's
First Australian; young people and technology; kayaks today; Mountaineer
and expedition leader Duncan Chessell.
November 2005
Community Gardens; Book Reviews with a focus on aspects of South Australian
community life - written by Jan Gaebler; Under-employed? Then find out
about The Work Bank; Film Review - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.
October 2005
Film Review – Into The Blue; Find
the work / life balance; Learn @ Work 6 – Making for Better
Managers.
September 2005
Understanding Cancer; Film Review – Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory; Learn @ Work 1 - You learn a lot on the farm!; Learn
@ Work 2 - It's more than stacking shelves; Learn
@ Work 3 - Redundancy - learning helps; Learn
@ Work 4 - Volunteers learn too; Learn
@ Work 5 - Learning for Aboriginal Apprentices; Adult
Learners Week - Alan Tuckett.
August 2005
Adelaide's Trams Revisited; Resilience Part 1 - Interview with Pru Blackwell;
Resilience Part 2 - Interview with Anne Deveson
Film Review – War of the Worlds; Help is at hand for parents.
July 2005
I want to read to my kids; Old
people have rights too; International
Men's Health Week; Get
to know Mozart - 5 part series; Film Review – Batman Begins; And
yes, we learn at work too!
June 2005
Roseworthy Revisited; What
sustains teachers?; Every
School's Worst Nightmare; Breaking
the Cycle of Disadvantage with the Smith Family; Living
with the planet in mind.
May 2005
Lochend – Charles Campbell’s House in Campbelltown;
Italians
in Adelaide – History and contribution to society; Old
Highercombe Hotel Folk Museum, Tea Tree Gully; Donate
blood for winter; Internet
- Keeping kids safe online; Problem
Gambling – effects on individuals and families.
April 2005
Living Loud in Salisbury; History
of Adelaide’s Trams – A Visit to St Kilda Museum;
Children
and Families in Transition – Kids and family breakup; Peter
Sculthorpe’s Small Town (1963); Meet
Colin Thiele – 12 part series, broadcast from 01 April 05;
Film Review
– Being Julia; Film
Review – Robots; Alzheimers
Research – Feeding the Fish at Adelaide University; Blackham
Environment and Conservation Centre; Starting
a Franchise business; Parents
Return to Work Initiative.
March 2005
Wartburg to Bowden – A Faith Journey – Lutherans in SA;
State Library
of South Australia – A tour of the new building; Men’s
Health, Davoren Park; Hollywood’s
First Australian – Biography of John P McGowan.
February 2005
Sri Lanka
– after the Tsunami; Vietnam
and Cambodia – A Learning Journey.
