- Title
- Learning to be drier : A case study of adult and community learning in the Australian Riverland
- Creator
- Brown, Michael; Schulz, Christine
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/45492
- Identifier
- vital:2335
- Identifier
- ISSN:1443-1394
- Abstract
- This article explores the adult and Community learning associated with 'learning to be drier' in the Riverland region of South Australia. Communities in the Riverland are currently adjusting and making changes to their understandings and practices as part of learning to live with less water. The analysis of adult and community learning derived from this research identified six different forms of learning. These are, learning to produce, learning to be efficient, learning to survive, learning to live with uncertainty, learning to be sustainable and learning to share. These forms of learning do not occur in isolation and separately from each other but to the contrary are occurring simultaneously with and alongside each other. Further, it is argued that the people and communities in the Riverland, through learning to live with the effects of climate change and less water, are at the forefront of learning to be drier.
- Publisher
- Adult Learning Australia
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Adult Learning Vol. 49, no. 3 (2009), p. 497-519
- Rights
- Copyright Adult Learning Australia
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Adult learning; Community learning; Water sustainability; Regional Australia
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