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Australian Conferences
ALARA holds or supports annual conferences in Australia.
ALARA 2008 Conference - "The Whole Person: sustainable futures in living, learning and working"
The conference theme explores the encroachment of economic rationalist approaches to our work and life and its dominance in areas such as health and education particularly. This is often pursued at the expense of community development and wellbeing of individuals and families, not to mention workplaces and our educational institutions.
The central focus on sustainability concerns education (e.g. developing sustainable curricula), community development (e.g. designing and developing sustainable communities), and environmental impacts (e.g. sustainable futures and technologies). This is not an exhaustive list, but outlines the intentions behind the theme, to develop the whole person. In this, the whole person requires attention to issues of health and wellbeing, work-life balance, investigation of the worker-learner, education for lifelong learning and tensions between individual and community and economics and community.
Scroll down to the end of this page to follow the links to the conference registration page and attached papers for conference brochure and catalyst papers.
Previous conferences
2007 - Tauondi College, Adelaide 8, 9 & 10 August 2007. "Moving forward together." Topics included education, environment, health and Aboriginal ways of knowing and doing.
2005 - Sydney - "Telling our stories"
2004 - Darwin - "Action in the Top End - The Power of Story"
2003 - Gold Coast - Surfing the winds of change
2002 - Brisbane Conference - "Confronting the Gaps"
2002 - Melbourne - Research-In-Action Symposium
2001 - Brisbane - Different Journeys
1999 - Sydney - Translations of Action Learning and Action Research?
Abstracts from the 1999 ALARPM Conference
1998 - Brisbane - "Solutions outside the square": Action learning and action research for a better world. Abstracts from the 1998 ALARPM Conference
1997 - Singapore - Building a Learning Organisation through AL&AR
1997 - Brisbane - Action for a Better World: Practitioner Development Conference
