Overview   Introduction   Program Details

An Introduction

The theme for Adult Learners Week 2001 is Making the Connection - getting connected to learning and using learning as a way of connecting to the world, the nation, your community and your family.

Adult Community Education in South Australia encompasses a wide variety of learning activities. It is offered by a diverse range of providers at many varied learning venues to meet the vastly disparate needs of South Australians.

Adult Community Education has an important role to play in lifelong learning and fostering the development of learning communities. Lifelong learning is far broader than the provision of second chance education and training for adults. It is based on the view that everyone should be able, motivated and actively encouraged to learn throughout life.

The five programs in The Learning Connection (and the five programs from Returning to Learning, produced in 2000) present the perspective of individuals who are building on their present skills, discovering learning, and building learning communities.

As this Radio Adelaide initiative will be heard on many community radio stations across the metropolitan and rural areas of South Australia, listeners across the state will be challenged to think about the importance of learning for life. Radio Adelaide is to be commended for the production of this CD and the examples it contains of lifelong learning in action in SA.

Gene Wenham AM
Chair
Adult Community Education Council

Related Links
Adult Community Education Unit
Adult Learners Week
Adult Learning Australia