ALARA News - October 2024
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Hello ALARA member
ALARA 2024 Australasian ConferenceRegistrations for the ALARA - UTS conference continue, but close 4 November. A large proportion of participants will be attending at UTS on 7 and 8 November, but the Organising Committee welcome in-person or virtual participants. The growing list of accepted proposals are on the conference programme page. The final programme is in preparation, and should be online later this month. Please let your colleagues know or downloading the flyer and pass it to your colleagues. Registration is $450 for attendance at UTS and $350 for virtual attendance, with concessional registration available. The registration price includes one year's membership of ALARA. ALARA Annual General MeetingALARA will hold its Annual General Meeting on 7 November at the 2024 conference as well as electronically, commencing on 22 October. Details about the AGM are available on the Annual General Meeting 2024 announcement page. If you have any questions about the meeting, please email ALARA. Brisbane Group Workshop: Bridging the Practice-Theory Divide in Higher Education using Action ResearchA workshop entitled Bridging the Practice-Theory Divide in Higher Education using Action Research: Integrating Community and University Knowledges for Positive Change, presented by Lesley Wood, Eileen Piggot-Irvine and Sara Branch, is scheduled for 12 November at 2.00-4.00 pm at Griffith University Mt Gravatt Campus. The workshop is followed by a book launch by Bill Synnot (international guru of change management): See here for more information or download the flyer. ACEE ArchiveLong-time supporter of ALARA, Elyssebeth Leigh has advised that the archive of the Australian Consortium on Experiential Education (ACEE) is available online. ACEE was a Community of Practice providing its members with a supportive and challenging environment to develop and disseminate knowledge about cooperative learning, knowledge sharing and challenging boundaries. It produced a journal - A Quarterly Experience (AQE) - between 1981 and 1999. All but the first five editions of the journal are now available online. For a brief period the AQE became the Australian Journal of Experiential Learning (AJEL), and the available issues of that Journal are also included. The ALARA Networks page for electronic and multi-continent AL/AR entities also includes a link for the archive. Action Learning and Action Research JournalThe next issue of the ALAR Journal is expected to be published in coming days. The issue is a special issue recognising the work and interests of Dr Erik Lindhult, who was a member of the ALARA Global Strategic Publications Editorial Board when he passed away last year. The Editorial Board welcomes submissions for the second issue this year (due in early December) or for next year's issues. Please see the ALAR Journal site for more information on submitting to the Journal. Action Learning / Action Research CalendarThe ALARA webpage with Action Learning and Action Research news and events continues to be updated, as does the AL / AR calendar of events. Please send any news for us to add to the webpage and the AL/AR Calendar so that all can see what is happening in the AL/AR communities. If you have any items, please contact ALARA. Colin Bradley |