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COMMUNITY EDUCATION
ABOUT JUSTICE AND THE LAW
PUBLIC FORUM
convened by the
Centre for Popular Education, UTS
When: 10am to 6pm, Friday 26th July 2002
Where: Blackfriars Campus, University of Technology, Sydney
(entrance on Blackfriars Street, Chippendale - between Abercrombie and
Buckland St.)
A one day forum for community workers, youth workers, community
education project officers, tenants' advocacy and advice workers,
lawyers, co-ordinators, policy-makers, researchers and academics.
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The forum is part of efforts to encourage more research and analysis
about what constitutes effective community education practice about
justice and the law. Why is there little research and analysis about
what constitutes effective community education practice about justice
and the law, compared to the growing amount of research about community
health education? The health system may be more substantial than the
justice system. But the number and variety of practitioners who help
people, particularly in disadvantaged communities, learn about justice
and the law is very large and does warrant more research attention.
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CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
Selected papers of 1,500 to 3,000 words will be published in May 2003.
Proposals for papers should include:
* a title
* names of authors with full contact details and brief narrative
resume/s
* a summary of about 200 - 400 words.
Proposals should be received by May 20th, 2002. Authors of papers
accepted will be advised by May 31st.
Send proposals to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Centre for Popular Education, UTS,
PO Box 123, Broadway
2007 or fax 02-9514 3939.
SOME LEADING FORUM QUESTIONS
* How do you help people learn legal information so it is meaningful
to them?
* How do you help people take a step further than absorption of
information so they exercise responsibility for their learning?
* What is the difference between a needs-based vs a rights-based
approach to community legal education?
* What did/does the community legal/tenancy based education/learning
activity intend to help people learn?
* Who is it for? What particular needs might some of the learners
have?
* What will the learners know at the end of the program? What will
the learners be able to do? What are or will the learners likely to
feel differently about? What actions are or will the participants
be able to take following the training?
* How did/does the activity intend to help people learn? In other
words, what educational strategies were or will be used to help
people learn?
* Why were these particular educational strategies chosen? What
alternative strategies were considered?
* Who is/was expected to learn? Who was/is expected to facilitate the
learning?
* How much money and staff time is/was available to plan and manage
the activity? How did this affect the decisions about the type of
educational strategies chosen?
* Over what period of time are/were people expected to learn?
* How effective was the community legal education/tenancy based
learning activity? Why?
* How was the effectiveness of the learning activity/program
assessed?
LAUNCH OF NEW BOOK
Celina McEwen has edited the following collection of papers.
Promoting and Sustaining Change in Residential Parks Communities, Jenny
Watson, Tenants Advocate with the Central Coast Tenants' Advice &
Advocacy Service
The Bigger Picture: a Grassroots Campaign for Human Rights, Patrick
Byrt, Convenor of Reconciliation and Human Rights, Roma Mitchell CLC
Community Consultation: Rhetoric or Reality?, Bruce Johnston, Chitrita
Mukherjee, Shobha Sharma, Evelyn Mike, Veronica Millar and David
Evanian-Thomas, Ethnic Affairs Unit, NSW Police Service
Making it Happen: The Story of a Campaign for Youth Justice, Paul
Spooner, Director, Brisbane Youth Advocacy Centre
Messages to Polly: Who Defines the Issues? Sharon Callaghan, Tenancy
Advice and Advocacy worker, Illawarra Legal Centre Tenancy Service
The Role of a Specialist Legal Centre in Community Education, Karen Cox,
solicitor, employed as a community education project worker at Consumer
Credit Legal Centre (NSW)
Community Legal Centres and the Role of Community Legal Education as a
Tool for Social Change, Sam Biondo, Community Development Officer at
Fitzroy Legal Service
It's All About Change: TAS CLE Training Course in Tenancy Law for
Community Workers, Lanie Chopping, CLE worker, WA, Council of Social
Service
Challenging Racism: An Action for World Development Workshop, Lilyana
Theodossiou, coordinator of the Aboriginal Justice Support Group and the
Racism Awareness Task Group, AWD
CLE with a Difference, Wendy Morton, Disability Discrimination Advocate
and Outreach Worker, Darwin Community Legal Service
Community Arts for Tenancy Advice and Advocacy, to be confirmed
Re-settling and Story-telling Tenants, to be confirmed
Community Theatre and Community Legal Education, to be confirmed
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For more information please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or tel.
02-9514 3847.
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Registration Form
Name
Organisation
Postal Address
Phone Number
Fax Number
E-mail Address
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Registration Fee $50
Fee includes morning and afternoon tea. There are countless eating
places around the university for lunch.
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Payment Options
Cheque
Please make all cheques payable to The Centre for Popular Education, UTS
Credit Card
Credit Card Type
(Mastercard, Visa etc.)
Cardholder Name
Account Number
Expiry Date
Signature
Please post, fax or e-mail your registration to The Centre for Popular
Education, UTS
Fax (02) 9514 3939
E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007
www.cpe.uts.edu.au
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