This page is the starting point for finding out more about:

• Connect ...
  a practice journal supporting student participation ... and associated publications
  
  
• the Global Village worldwide music radio program on Melbourne station PBS 106.7 FM and digital - Sundays 5-7 pm
  
  
• Roger Holdsworth's education consultancies particularly around Student Action Teams

It is also the home page for ASPRIN:

the Australian Student Participation Resource and Information Network

– "a cure for your student participation headaches".

Welcome to the wonderful ASPRINworld!

Travel:

We also love to visit interesting places!

Check stories (and photos) of recent travels on our travel blogs:

•  2007

Italy (Rome, Pompeii, Venosa, Puglia, Calabria, Sicily, Sardinia); Corsica;
Spain (Besalu, Albarracin, Cuenca, Toledo, Trujillo, Sierra de Gata, Mucientes, Burgos, Arenas de Cabrales, Albella);
Portugal: (Serpa, Lisbon, Coimbra, Vila Nova Foz do Côa); 
France: (Cordes sur Ciel, Vervialle, Chartres, Paris);   
Turkey: (Istanbul, Safranbolu, Pinarbasi, Sinop, Amasya, Hattusa, Göreme);   
Singapore

•  2010

Uzbekistan; Turkey (Istanbul); France (Paris);  Lao (Luang Prabang)

•  2012

Southern Italy (Sicily, Calabria, Puglia);  Northern Greece; the Republic of Macedonia;  Serbia;  Montenegro;  Croatia; Northern and central Italy

•  2013

Cambridge UK (for Student Voice Conference);
France (Paris; western France); Northern Spain (Asturies);
Central France

•  2014

Cambridge UK (for Student Voice Conference); England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland

•  2015

Cambridge UK (for Student Voice Conference);
France; Germany [Rudolstadt TFF]; Czech Republic; Poland; Lithuania; Latvia; Estonia; Finland; Sweden; Norway; Denmark; Western Germany

•  2018

Canada and USA (Montreal and Burlington, VT - for the Amplifying Student Voice and Partnerships Conference);
France; Germany (inc Rudolstadt Festival); Czech Republic (inc Czech Music Crossroads, Colours of Ostrava, and Folk Holidays Festivals); Poland; Slovakia, Hungary (Budapest); Slovenia (Ptuj); Austria; Switzerland; Italy

•  2020

The trip that was planned and that was to be - but still taken in our imagination:
Spain (Catalunya, Andalucia, Extremadura) > Portugal > Spain (Galicia, Euskadi) > France (south, east) > Germany (for the Rudolstadt Festival) 

What We Do

1. Connect ...

was a small 'practice journal' supporting student participation (student voice, student engagement, student representation, student leadership etc) in primary and secondary schools.

Connect was published bi-monthly starting in 1979. It celebrated its 40th birthday at the end of 2019; published its final print issue (#200) in April 2013 ... and was then published and available on-line for free! In 2021, it was published quarterly, and then finished publication with issue 250 in November 2021

All back copies of Connect remain freely available for download. There is a link here to an index of current and back issues; use this to browse for articles of interest. The live links will then take you to specific issues for free download.

Connect Publications

Connect also produced a range of small publications about student participatory approaches, which can be ordered here.

2. The Global Village ...

is a weekly worldwide music radio program on Melbourne community station PBS 106.7 FM and digital.
It has been broadcast since late 1989 and is currently heard on Sundays 5-7 pm in Melbourne - plus on-line everywhere else.

In support of this, an on-line
Gig Guide of worldwide music in Melbourne and environs keeps you up to date with what's happening in live music in this area of interest.

The Global Village is also a member of the panel for producing the Transglobal World Music Charts.

3. Consultancies...

Despite formally retiring in 2004, I work in support of many school, clusters of schools and other groups - particularly around student participatory approaches such as Student Action Teams.

4. VicSRC...

I also work as a critical friend in support of the VicSRC, the peak body representing school-aged students in Victoria, Australia. The VicSRC's vision is for a student-focused education system that enhances young people's capacity to change the world. The organisation exists to empower all student voices to be valued in every aspect of education.