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VECO Online Guest:
David TurnerAugust 14 - 26, 2000
Community
Based Learning:
Some UK case studies of peer support and young person led
community action
The Guest · The topic · Background material · Event schedule
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Dave
has recently returned from the United Kingdom to live and work
in Australia.
Whilst living in Britain for 12 years, Dave has been a consultant in the related fields of enterprise and careers education, active citizenship, youth policy, social inclusion, human resource development and local/regional development. |
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Dave Turner |
Dave is now seeking to build upon this work and make a contribution to the areas of
· vocational, enterprise and careers education
· education and community links
· rites of passage and tackling disaffection
· regional, local and rural development
· young person led community involvement
· education and industry links
· learning community and lifelong learning
In addition to working in the UK, Dave has worked extensively
in Australia (his home) and Southern Africa. Dave has also
undertaken consultancy work for OECD, The Commonwealth and
various governments on enterprise education and school
industry/community links.
Community based learning is of interest to educators as one of the ways of increasing the relevance of young peoples' learning. The projects in which Dave has been involved over recent years are great case studies of the effectiveness of this approach.
You are warmly invited to actively participate in this event.
To participate fully in this event it will be helpful to read some background material about the case studies. Go!
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Orientation: Monday August 14, 2000 Guest Postings to veco-cbl email list: Summary and closure: Wednesday August 31.
Monday August 15 - Friday August 26, 2000
A special email discussion list called veco-cbl has been created for this event. Participation is simple - all you need is an email address. Subscribe now!
NOTE: If you are already a member of the voced-coord or reworking9-10 email lists, you will be automatically subscribed to the veco-cbl email discussion list on August 14.
You can invite someone else to join in by sending them a pre- prepared email personalised with a note from you. Invite a friend!
Discussion
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Archives of the discussion will be available as they are posted.
First published August 9, 2000. Last modified August 14, 2000.
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