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Beyond
communities of practice: theory as experience
Edited by Tom Stehlik and Pam Carden
Post Pressed, 2005
Communities of practice are groups of people who informally share, develop and process learning, knowledge and practice. They form when like-minded people come together to achieve a goal or find that they have common interests, and often develop into learning communities with transformative consequences for individuals.
In this collection authors from Australia and Finland investigate communities of practice in a range of situations, including new school teachers, offshore university students and collaboration between scientists. In doing so they develop and go beyond the original theory of communities of practice, adding new dimensions of experience such as the importance of power relations, emotions and social identities.
Edited by Tom Stehlik, senior lecturer in the School of Education, and Pam Carden, PhD candidate and research officer at Relationships Australia (SA), the book was launched in December 2005. The book project originated in 2004 when Dr Stehlik undertook a research fellowship at the Hawke Institute, with the aim of identifying cross-disciplinary examples of communities of practice, bringing together contributions by UniSA colleagues from various schools as well as featuring two chapters by academic staff from the Helsinki School of Economics.
Friendly
Street New Poets 11
Cameron Fuller, Simone Matthews, Rachel Manning
Wakefield Press, 2006
For more than a decade, the Friendly Street New Poets series has been unearthing the talents of new South Australian writers who have not previously published a collection of poetry.
The latest in the series, New Poets 11, features three individual collections that were selected by local poet Kate Deller-Evans.
They include Words Free by Simone G Matthews; Jars of Artefacts by Rachel J Manning; and Low Background Noise by Cameron Fuller, a UniSA PhD candidate who recently completed Honours in Professional and Creative Communication.
Featuring the beautiful work of local artist Tom Moore on its cover, the book continues the Friendly Street tradition of introducing fresh and lively South Australian poetry to a national audience.
The book will be launched at the Adelaide Writers Week Festival in early
March.
For more information visit
www.friendlystreetpoets.org.au or
www.wakefieldpress.com.au
Beyond
Words: Lessons on translation, trust and meaning
Associate Professor Nicholas Procter
Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, under the National Mental Health Strategy, 2005
This book is a valuable resource that provides a model of delivery on
promoting mental health issues and learning from culturally diverse
communities.
The resource is based on the successful No More Mualagh project which worked
with Afghani people living in rural Australia to help them learn more about
depression, how it is treated and how to safely use the medicine their
doctors give them (see www.mmha.org.au for more information).
Associate Professor Nicholas Procter from the School of Nursing and
Midwifery conducted the project in partnership with Multicultural Mental
Health Australia and the National Ethnic Disability Alliance, with funding
from the National Prescribing Service under the Community Quality Use of
Medicines Rural Project Scheme.
For information visit www.mmha.org.au