Archives
March 2006
Program summaries for Learning Works, and for selected programs, some additional resources for listeners to follow up on the program.
Week beginning Monday 6 March
Health, Wellbeing and Relationships
Community gardens - a healthy confluence!
To coincide with the 2006 Community Gardens national conference being
held this week, this week's Learning Works program is fully devoted to community
gardens. Recorded at a recent open day at the Duck Flat Community Garden,
part of Mt Barker and District Health Services Inc, the program is based
on an interview with the coordinator of Duck Flat Community Garden Tess
Minett, and several of the visitors from other community gardens in
SA. Also in this feature program, Rosemary Neal, executive officer of
the SA Community and Neighbourhood Houses and Centres Association, speaks
about the importance of the community gardens movement across South
Australia. The health and wellbeing benefits are a focus of the program.
Week beginning Monday 13 March
A Learning Society
The Changing Role of Libraries
The opening recently of the new facility in the Melbourne suburb of
Altona Meadows, including a library and a neighbourhood house. The program
includes an interview with the Honourable Lynne Kosky MLA, Minister
of Education and Training in Victoria.
mp3 audio – click here
Media and Technology
The Academy Awards – a Reflection
Learning Works’s film reviewer John J McGowan looks back at the recent
Oscars.
mp3 audio – click
here
Fact Sheet - click
here
Week beginning Monday 20 March
Health Wellbeing and Relationships
Men’s Sheds – Older Men’s Learning Spaces and Programs
in Australia
Associate Professor Barry Golding from the University of Ballarat speaks
about the skill development that takes place for older men in dedicated
men’s programs and community spaces usually referred to as men’s
sheds, and the factors which can bring otherwise disengaged men to learning.
mp3 audio – click
here
fact sheet - click
here
Week beginning Monday 27 March
Media and Technology
Childhood Obesity and the Media
The focus is on childhood obesity and the regulation of food advertising to children, in the media, through this interview with Associate Professor Elizabeth Handsley, from the School of Law at Flinders University and Vice President of Young Media Australia. Since early 2005 Associate Professor Handsley has been conducting a study on the regulation of food advertising in a selection of countries around the world, with a view to developing a potential best practice model for Australia, against a backdrop of an increase in childhood obesity over recent years.
Leisure and Sport
From Perth to Sydney - by wheelchair
From the UK, meet Spike who, in September this year, plans to return
to Australia and travel from Perth to Sydney in his powered wheelchair.
MP3 - click here
Tony Ryan
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