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ACAL Conference 2008
31st Annual ACAL Conference 2008
Early Bird Closing Date August 19
Surfers Paradise, Queensland
2nd - 4th October 2008 - Crowne Plaza
Pre-Conference Forum 2nd October
Links
Keynote Addresses
Noyona Chanda, Deputy Director and Head of Numeracy,
LLU+, Southbank University, London
“Numeracy - more than maths, no less than literacy and language and equal to personal and social effectiveness”
Colleen Mitrow, Principal, Lorraine Ward, Adelaide Saylor and Southside Education (Brisbane) school community
“Dare to move the flags”
Michael Balfour, Chair, Applied and Social Theatre, Griffith University, Brisbane
“No place like home: the (re)creating of identity in refugee performance”
Hermine Scheeres, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Technology, Sydney
Overview of sessions
Michelle Circelli
A New Dawn?
Michelle Eady
Aboriginal Literacy: Bridging the Distance to Learning
Kate Messent & Gail Kirkland
Weaving Language/Literacy/Numeracy into Workplace Training
Gregory Mowle
Beyond Budgeting to Financial Literacy
Philippa McLean & Dave Tout - workshop
Introduction to the Australian Core Skills Framework (revised NRS)
Jana Scomazzon - workshop
Four Steps to Catching the Big Waves: Strength-Based VET Practice
David Wallace
The Grit in the Oyster - Does Social Practices in an Adult Literacies Teaching Qualification Result in Pearls of Practice
Sandrina Elers
Tuungia te Ururoa - Reclaiming Cultural Identity
Ann Kelly
Explicating communicative tacit knowledge: Use of recorders to identify worker practices
Chris Schluter & Hazel Carter
Making Dollars and Sense of Financial Literacy
Gail Wiltshire
Practical reconciliation - what can we do?
Jane Furness
Researching literacy in mixed settings: a case study of rights and challenges
Michael Rennie & Sandra Rennie
Engaging VET students: How the fun of radio is getting kids back to class voluntarily
Claire Wright & Sue Roy
Environmental sustainability and financial literacy/numeracy: using a competency based approach to adult numeracy
Katrina Lyle & Philippa McLean
Resources for the CGEA mapped to the NRS and ACSF and incorporating Employability Skills
Gail Makin
Research or Rhetoric?
Steve Black
Health literacy: Policies, partnerships and pedagogies
Anne Mahon & Eva Sahanna
Deadly Dreaming: Bi-cultural strategies for working with Indigenous Adults in Education
Cheryl Wilkinson & Dave Tout
Practitioner engagement, knowledge and capability: Connecting adult literacy and numeracy research and curriculum to policy and practice
Darryl Dymock & Stephen Billett
Catching a wave: Indicators of positive learning outcomes in community ALLN programs, and implications for teaching
ACAL – workshop
Towards a framework for social inclusion
Hugh Fielding
Be Aware not Alarmed
Joy Harley & Glen Newling
Changing the climate and taking off: Using the Zone of Proximal Development to engage adult literacy learners
Louise Wignall & Jana Scomazzon
Ten heads are better than one: The work of the ISC WELL Network
Keiko Yasukawa & Barbara Bee
Creating Spaces and Places for Critical Literacy and Numeracy - a radical agenda
Mignon Fanton & Vicki Belcher
Targeting Tutors
Margaret McHugh & Glynis Collard
Story-telling and story-writing: comparison between the meaning and use of narrative in Aboriginal culture and its place in formal teaching of literacy practices
Cathrena McRae & Sue Muller
Money Business for Boards – building the financial management skills of governing committee members of Indigenous organisations
Gerald Osando
Literacy, numeracy, and English language proficiency issues facing African students from a refugee background
Dianne Parslow
Incorporating numeracy into a literacy class
Chris Tully & Pauline Morrow – workshop
Food for Thought
Nicky Mohan & Damon Whitten
Decoding: Teaching phonics to adults
Sue Shore
Learning in an unequal world: what might adult literacy learners say to Robert Putnam, Pierre Bourdieu and other researchers of ‘social capital’?
Sally Gray & Anne Webster
Some practical strategies to accommodate specific literacy needs of African Refugees
Ruth Wallace & Lorraine Sushames
Professional Learning in Challenging Work Environments: Developing Teachers Across Great Distances
Wendy Say & Donna Weaver
Indigenous language, literacy and numeracy training in the army’s north west mobile force
Helen Flanders
Meeting literacy & numeracy needs of African refugees
Sue Roy & Claire Wright
A competency based approach to Adult Literacy & Numeracy and Employability Skills: what are the advantages?
Debbie Soccio
Teaching and Learning Online: Have you tried it yet?
Merv Gardner
A first class job, not second class trainers
Tony Thorpe
Reading and Writing (Into) The Academic Culture
George Somerville
Bridging the digital literacy divide for adults in Indigenous regional/remote communities
Jean Searle, Chris Schluter & Ron Cox
Literacy Unbarred
Cate Thompson
Implementing the A Frame: - Quality provision of literacy and numeracy via pre accredited teaching & learning programs
Fiona Shanahan
Lexialearning systems. For all levels of literacy needs and accessible across the country
Pre-Conference Forum – Thursday 2 October
Adult literacy, numeracy and lifelong learning: a cross-sectoral dialogue
Join Senator Ursula Stephens (Parliamentary Secretary for Social Inclusion) and Dave Tout as we examine the implications of the ALLS survey for different sectors and work towards developing a framework for social inclusion through building literacy into a whole of government approach to policy development.
A range of speakers from the health sector, from industry, and welfare sectors will examine how literacy relates to issues of social & economic exclusion. Representatives from not-for-profit organisations will also present models of what works, barriers to social inclusion and other issues.