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Adult Learning through Fire and Emergency Service Organisations in Small and Remote Australian Towns
Download full textHayes, Christine; Golding, Barry; Harvey, Jack – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2004
Communication and other literacy skills are vital to public safety organizations. This report investigates the impact literacy levels may have on the ability of volunteers to meet demands for more formal training and assessment. The role of these organizations to develop the skills of people in rural and remote communities is also considered. The…
Descriptors: Safety, Literacy, Adult Learning, Community Development
Kenyon, Peter – 2001
Over the last 2 decades, the loss of population and businesses in many small, inland, and remote Australian rural communities has intensified, largely because of the stress and uncertainty of volatile world commodity markets. This manual presents a range of survival and revival strategies that some communities have used to build resilient…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Development
