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		<title>Creating older adults technology training policies: lessons from community practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Author/s: Michael Nycyk and Margaret Redsell Edition: Volume 47, Number 2, July 2007 Summary: Influencing government policy in adult learning areas requires consistent efforts in having findings noticed by educational policymakers. Submissions by Adult Learning Australia and researchers have called for unified educational policies and practices across Australia. This paper argues that, whilst it is important &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="https://ajal.net.au/creating-older-adults-technology-training-policies-lessons-from-community-practices/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Creating older adults technology training policies: lessons from community practices"</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Getting connected: insights into social capital from recent adult learning research</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Author/s: Barry Golding Edition: Volume 47, Number 1, April 2007 Summary: This paper begins by teasing out the nature of social capital and its particular and current relevance to adult learning policy and practice in Australia. The paper identifies a number of benefits and significant problems with social capital as an organising construct for adult &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="https://ajal.net.au/getting-connected-insights-into-social-capital-from-recent-adult-learning-research/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Getting connected: insights into social capital from recent adult learning research"</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A volunteer training framework</title>
		<link>https://ajal.net.au/a-volunteer-training-framework/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 05:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[framework]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pathways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[policy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Author/s: Moira Deslandes and Louise Rogers Edition: Volume 48, Number 2, July 2008 Summary: Volunteering SA (VSA) has responded to the need to revise and expand the training offered to volunteers. It has developed a volunteer training framework to provide structure and guidance for the sector in making policy and financial decisions about directions and type &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="https://ajal.net.au/a-volunteer-training-framework/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "A volunteer training framework"</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The emergence of continuing education in China</title>
		<link>https://ajal.net.au/the-emergence-of-continuing-education-in-china/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 02:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Author/s: Xiao Chen and Gareth Davey Edition: Volume 48, Number 1, April 2008 Summary: This article reports on continuing education in China. It discusses the emergence of the field in the 1980s, the Chinese characteristics of continuing education, recent developments, and limitations. Continuing education became available in China in the 1980s following a change in &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="https://ajal.net.au/the-emergence-of-continuing-education-in-china/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "The emergence of continuing education in China"</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Investigating students’ beliefs about Arabic language programs at Kuwait University</title>
		<link>https://ajal.net.au/investigating-students-beliefs-about-arabic-language-programs-at-kuwait-university/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 03:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Author/s: Shaye S. Al-Shaye Edition: Volume 49, Number 3, November 2009 Summary: The current study attempted to identify students’ of Arabic programs beliefs about their chosen programs. To achieve this purpose, a survey was developed to collect the data from randomly selected students in liberal-arts and education-based programs at Kuwait University. The results showed that &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="https://ajal.net.au/investigating-students-beliefs-about-arabic-language-programs-at-kuwait-university/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Investigating students’ beliefs about Arabic language programs at Kuwait University"</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Water, weeds and autumn leaves: learning to be drier in the Alpine region</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 02:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Author/s: Annette Foley &#38; Lauri Grace Edition: Volume 49, Number 3, November 2009 Summary: Our paper explores how and what adults living and working in the Alpine region of Victoria understand and are learning about the changes to water availability, in a time when the response to water availability is subject to extensive debate and &#8230; <p class="link-more"><a href="https://ajal.net.au/water-weeds-and-autumn-leaves-learning-to-be-drier-in-the-alpine-region/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Water, weeds and autumn leaves: learning to be drier in the Alpine region"</span></a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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