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Learning
Partnerships at Work
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Jo Balatti
School of Education
James Cook University
Cairns Campus
Cairns 4870
email: Josephine.Balatti@jcu.edu.au
In this paper I report on a research project funded under the ANTA Demonstrating Best Practice in VET National Project. It describes how a learning community in a remote mine site was established to develop literacy and other communication skills of employees. Collaboration between the Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE and mine management produced a peer tutoring model that was successfully implemented in a worksite that had thwarted all previous attempts in meeting those same communication training needs.
Eighteen months after the project began, I interviewed managers, TAFE personnel and program participants. This paper discusses their reflection upon the experience - why the peer tutoring program was introduced, how it was implemented, why it had worked and in hindsight, what changes could have been made. As an unexpected bonus, the tutoring program proved to be a catalyst for learning experiences and partnerships that extended beyond what had been envisaged.
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