Publications
Who is at the table?
The Lakes Post recently had the following article on the launch of the revised edition of Growing and Learning in Rural Communities on 19th November 2024. Dr Helen Sheil launched her latest publication Growing and Learning in Rural Communities at the Lakes Entrance Library last Tuesday with a large audience in attendance. Before Helen spoke […]
ABC Gippsland – in conversation with Helen Sheil – growing and learning in rural communities
Book re-launch revisits the art of successful community engagement in a divided world. Regional Community Development researcher and former Monash University educator, Dr Helen Sheil will be re-releasing a revised edition of her definitive community engagement textbook ‘Growing and Learning in Rural Communities’, on Tuesday 19th November, between 2-3pm at the Lakes Entrance Library. Having […]
Join us for this exciting book launch – ‘Growing and learning in rural communities’, rev ed. – Dr Helen Sheil
While living in East Gippsland, Helen was inspired by the Rural Women’s Program introduced by Helenè Brophy. This led to her enrolment in Adult Education at the University of South Australia, to teach Diploma of Community Development at TAFE, and later to research and design a post-graduate program for Regional Community Development facilitators at Monash […]
Growing and learning in rural communities – a 2024 revised edition
A professional development manual for facilitators on the front-line of community engagement and management. An introduction to theory, practice and evaluation of a model of Collaborative engagement for transformation.
Publication Date: 19th July 2024.
Voices from within communities – resources for working in rural communities
Communities, government and professionals are all seeking more effective tools to assist positive change in rural communities. The Centre for Rural Communities has produced two publications that distill 15 years of community work into a process for working effectively and positively to enable communities to achieve their own goals and dreams. Growing and Learning in […]
Transformation: from despair to opimism
Recent events in Victoria highlight the importance of politicians paying attention to the rural voice and the issue of rural well being. The substance of this paper demonstrates the capacity of rural communities to contribute a missing link in the chain of decision making in regard to the future well being of regional Australia. To […]
Tracking the personal and community changes – from invisibility to action
Regional Arts Victoria funded the building of a floating art studio on Lake Tyers in 2017. Tracking the changes uses State of Community Indicators to give visibility to the impact of a facilitated engagement of those involved in the Float Almanac www.float3909.com/almanac . This reflection records WHAT happened, it is one aspect of a chapter […]
East Gippsland Environmental Sustainability Toolkit
The East Gippsland Environmental Sustainability Strategy 2008–2013 outlines East Gippsland Shire’s position on issues relating to the protection, preservation and enhancement of the environment and consolidates the Shire’s existing achievements, policies and plans about environmental sustainability. The Strategy highlights Council’s progress on major considerations for environmental sustainability – including biodiversity, water quality and consumption, greenhouse […]
The Changing Nature of Australia’s Country Towns
Edited by M F Rogers & D R Jones 28-Sep-2013 This book provides a look at our increasing understanding of the growth, stasis and decline of our country towns. It covers not only changing social and economic trends, but also the art of engagement of communities, new modes of development, water and its local management […]
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