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Monday 26 July/ Repeat Friday 30 July 2010
A Learning Society
Multi-Literacies: Health Literacy
We’ve all from time to time found ourselves in the emergency ward of a hospital – maybe with sick young children, or as the result of an accident. How do we make sense of what is going on? And what is this experience like for people whose knowledge of spoken or written English is limited. With much emphasis these days on multi-literacies, this week in Learning works, we hear about an important set of skills for all of us to have - best described as health literacy – and the role of adult educators in developing Health Literacy skills in the community.
Our guest is Associate Professor Hermine Scheeres, Co-ordinator of the BA Organisational Learning and the Grad Dip Literacy and Numeracy, at University of Technology Sydney. She is Deputy Chair of the Board of the Faculty of Education, a member of the UTS Equity Reference Committee and Co-editor of the Journal Literacy and Numeracy Studies: an international journal in the education and training of adults.
A Learning Society
Redundancy – Changing the Negatives into Positives
Sue was recently made redundant from her position in the forestry industry in the South East of South Australia. In this interview, she speaks about the challenges that losing her job has faced her with and her emerging plans to make a new start by returning to study through TAFE. Also in the program, we hear from Ricky Owens, State Coordinator Forest Industry Employment Training Service, and from Kerry McCarthy and Darwin Terry, Business Development Consultants with TAFE SA in Mount Gambier.
Tony Ryan
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