This will be pursued through training and support for staff development personnel and other academic staff of the institutions, to conduct collaborative action learning programs within and across institutions. There is no current formal network of staff developers or women across these institutions, but the project may encourage such a development. Project activities commence with a residential start-up workshop to introduce key trainers to the action learning and action research approaches and skills for implementation. Staff developers then undertake action learning activities including training of other women academics in the 6 Technikons, with regular monthly progress review meetings. Key participants attend a leadership workshop in Australia to consult on progress and further develop skills through a mentoring program.
Action learning activities then continue, with regular monthly feedback meetings.
Skills are developed for report writing. There is a final conference presentation of findings of action learning and planning for future development activities. Computer control involves the use of a computer to control events. The children have had some limited experience of computer control, having used a Logo-based control language, Contact, to develop simple procedures to turn electrical components on and off. In the Primary School a child might experience computer control at first hand by using a computer to operate a Lego model or to sequence the lights on a set of model traffic lights.