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Communities of Practice in a Voluntary Youth Organisation: Reaching for the Sky and Building Social Capital
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Chan, Bill; Short, Tom – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2011
The study is situated within a national youth organisation called the Australian Air League Inc (Air League). We examine the recent progress of the Air League in South Australia, starting as a loose network of volunteers engaged in a sporadic array of activities, to become a learning community that worked collaboratively and then developed further…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives
Use of Development Centre Methodology to Focus Workforce Learning Strategies--Case Study: NSW Department of Community Services
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O'Toole, Sean; Ferres, Natalie – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2008
This paper examines the use of development centre methodology to measure the gap in performance for fieldwork staff in a social welfare organisation. The process follows the construction of a capability framework, a set of work-based simulations for participants and the use of a 360-degree instrument. These processes are combined to measure and…
Descriptors: Community Services, Welfare Services, Caseworkers, Organizational Development