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Communities in the Riverland are currently adjusting and making changes to their understandings and practices as part of learning to live with less water. The analysis of adult and community learning derived from this research identified six different forms of learning. These are, learning to produce, learning to be efficient, learning to survive, learning to live with uncertainty, learning to be sustainable and learning to share. These forms of learning do not occur in isolation and separately from each other but to the contrary are occurring simultaneously with and alongside each other. Further, it is argued that the people and communities in the Riverland, through learning to live with the effects of climate change and less water, are at the forefront of learning to be drier.  \n498 Mike Brown and Christine Schulz Learning to be drier: adult and community learning in the Australian Riverland 499  \nIntroduction  \nThis project focuses on the way that adults in the communities along the southern and lower Murray-Darling Basin are learning to adjust to the drier conditions that have been evident for the past decade. The project design elaborated in Paper 1 called for four pairs of researchers, one from each university conducting research in oneof four locations in these Basin communities. This article is about adult and community learning in the Riverland site centred around Paringa, Renmark, Berri, Barmera and Waikerie. The researchers were curious to find out more about the learning that is occurring in the communities in this region, in the midst of what are widely believed to be changing climate conditions and learning to live with less water. The result is the identification and explanation of six different forms of adult and community learning that are integrally bound up with a particular community of people, living in a particular place and their inter-relationships at a particular point in time.  \nThe project  \nTo collect data for the study, individual and small focus group interviews were conducted with participants considered to be  \nwater dependent stakeholders. The design of the study called for participants from within five categories. These are (1) farmers and growers,(2) water authorities and land managers,(3) representatives of community based organisations,(4) adult education and training providers, and (5) other water dependent businesses (as elaborated in Paper 1) .  \nThe researchers made two visits to the region to collect data and another to discuss and report back preliminary findings. The first visit was a reconnaissance to collect contextual information, to identify and confirm informants, and to set up the interviews. On the first day of the first visit the researchers were very fortunate to be able to sit in on, and speak at, a meeting of the local Murray Darling Association  \nwhich was meeting in Berri. The researchers outlined the project and were able to make useful contacts as a result of the suggestions of board members. Some suggested the names of others who they thought could make useful contributions.  \nOn the second visit to the region the researchers conducted thirteen interviews with nineteen informants; some interviews were  \nwith individuals, some as pairs and some in groups of three. Six participants were female and thirteen male. The interviews went for between 19 and 58 minutes and generated 137 pages of transcription.  \nThe Riverland region  \nThe Murray River is the centre-piece of the Riverland which is widely understood to extend from the South Australian side of the state borders with Victoria and New Sout","cbCaijfEkue6Npm4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijfEkue6Npm4","pdf",235299,12,"English","# Introduction\n# The project\n# The Riverland region","[{\"question\":\"What is the focus of the study on “learning to be drier”?\",\"answer\":\"The study focuses on how adults in Riverland communities along the southern and lower Murray-Darling Basin adjust to drier conditions and learn to live with less water.\"},{\"question\":\"How was data collected for the research?\",\"answer\":\"The researchers conducted individual and small focus group interviews with water-dependent stakeholders across five participant categories, and completed reconnaissance and follow-up visits to the region.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the six forms of adult and community learning identified in the article?\",\"answer\":\"The six forms are learning to produce, learn to be efficient, learn to survive, learn to live with uncertainty, learn to be sustainable, and learn to share.\"}]","Australian Journal of Adult Learning - Learning to be drier - A case study of adult and community learning in the Australian Riverland | PDF",1792077278]