- Title
- Adult education, social inclusion and cultural diversity in regional communities
- Creator
- Townsend, Robert
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/75474
- Identifier
- vital:7374
- Identifier
- ISSN:1443-1394
- Abstract
- This article presents the outcomes of recent research into adult education programs and experiences in the Shire of Campaspe, a region in northern Victoria. Research data of people from diverse cultural backgrounds reveal how individuals can utilise adult education as a space to explore their own social and cultural isolation in a regional context. The research reveals patterns of migration, internal population mobility, social isolation and cultural identity within the context of this one regional shire. The article discerns the roles that adult education providers play in creating specific kinds of space for people to discover new social networks while interacting with informal and formal structures and processes of adult learning. Adult education programs and practices can play an important role in providing space for the exploration of social, cultural and economic experiences. However, individual adult education organisations manage their spaces and programs in such a way that excludes some people from social and economic activity crucial to the development of individual and community social capital. Adult learning policies, programs and practices in regional communities need to address the holistic nature of adult learning for people from culturally diverse backgrounds in order to contribute to the development of sustaining social capital for individuals, families and communities in Australian society.
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Adult Learning Vol. 48, no. 1 (2008), p. 71-92
- Rights
- Copyright Australian Journal of Adult Learning
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1301 Education Systems; 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy; Adult education; Multicultural education; Social capital (Sociology); Linguistic minorities
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