Archives
May 2006
Program summaries for Learning Works, and for selected programs, some additional resources for listeners to follow up on the program.
Week Beginning 1 May 2006
Health Wellbeing and Relationships
Conflict at work and at home - It can be very good for you!
So what is conflict? And is it just a bad thing? Associate Professor
Dale Bagshaw from the University of South Australia sees conflict as
good for us, providing we know how to handle conflict, and work towards
the resolution of conflict. And yes, peace at any price at home, is
just not good for anyone. Today, we explore the place of conflict in
our lives - at home, at work, in our neighbourhood and in our world.
MP3 - click here
Literature, Language and Music
Meet Colin Thiele - Part 3
This week, we continued our extended interview with educator and much loved children's author Colin Thiele, and heard about his university days and teachers college.
Week beginning 8 May 2006
Media and Technology
Changing your world with technology!
Information Communication Technology (or ICT) is certainly here to
stay, and most small businesses and many not for profit organizations
are very much involved in using new technology in a variety of ways.
Community Information Strategies Australia organized the recent 2006 CommunIT Conference – on the theme of Changing Your World with Technology – the digital means to the social end. A keynote speaker at this conference was Nicola Thompson, who, through the United Kingdom’s ICT Hub – works closely with many voluntary and not for profit organizations throughout the UK. We also hear from three of the conference participants about how ICT impacts on their work, and from Doug Jacquier, CEO of Communications Information Strategies Australia.
MP3 - click here
Literature, Language and Music
Meet Colin Thiele – Part 4
And we continue with our series Meet Colin Thiele – a legendary
educator and award winning author. Today we hear about his first teaching
appointment, just as the second world war was getting under way.
Week beginning Monday 15 May 2006
Training and Work
"I didn't know!" - some legal and other matters for association
officers
Are you a member of a board of a voluntary organisation? Are you a part
time or fulltime executive officer of a not-for profit association?
If you think of the not-for-profit organisations that you, or your family,
come into contact with regularly - sporting, community, school or neighbourhood
house - or think of those charities that come to your door, what professional
development is needed to ensure that these organisations work effectively,
whether managed by volunteers or by a small paid staff? The number of
such associations around Australia is believed to be in the order of
700,000!
In Learning Works this week, John Teres - National Executive Officer of the
Australian Society of Association Executives - is interviewed by Tony
Ryan. Their website is www.ausae.org.au
MP3 - click here
Literature Language and Music
Meet Colin Thiele - Part 5
We continue with excerpts from an extended oral history interview with Colin Thiele, and hear of his early teaching days in Port Lincoln, the basis of one of his early novels for young people - Blue Fin!
Week beginning Monday 22 May 2006
Justice and Legal Issues
Opening Doors to the Law
Around Australia, each State and Territory holds a Law Week. This week,
Law Week is being held in South Australia, with the theme Opening Doors
to the Law. In Learning Works this week, Tony Ryan speaks with Michael O’Connell,
Chair of the Law Week Committee in South Australia, and to Stephen Walsh
QC, President of the SA Institute of Justice Studies about how law week
helps to raise awareness of legal matters, and to help in breaking down
those barriers to accessing the law.
MP3 - click here
Justice and Legal Issues
Seven Minute Legal – Come and Live with us Mum – Part 1
Over the next few weeks in Learning Works, we will be looking at the issue
of elder abuse. Come and live with us Mum may seem to be an
unusual series title. Yet examples of abuse relating to home and money
came up quite often during the interviews. With the support of the Law
Foundation of South Australia, this series will help to raise public
awareness of the issue of elder abuse and be a timely reminder that
abuse of any kind, and in this instance, of older Australians, is not
OK.
MP3 - click here
Week Beginning Monday 29 May
Health Wellbeing and Relationships
Healthy GPs?
Each day, our GPs see many patients, all of them with health problems.
So what about the health of our GPs themselves? Do they take care of
themselves? And how do they achieve some kind of work/life balance when
there is a growing shortage of GPs in many parts of Australia, including
in rural Australia and now in many metropolitan areas as well. Tony
Ryan speaks with Kate Carnell, former Chief Minister of the ACT, and
now Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Divisions of General Practice.
MP3 - click here
Literature, Language and Music
Meet Colin Thiele - Part 6
We continue with excerpts from an extended interview with Colin Thiele,
educator and award winning children's author. This week the focus continues
to be on his early teaching career beginning in Port lincoln, the tuna
capital of Australia.
Justice and Legal Issues
Come and Live with Us Mum - Part 2
The second in a series of ten short programs on elder abuse. This project
was made possible with assistance from the Law Foundation of South Australia.
MP3 - click here
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