Program outline

Monday, September 30, 2013

9.15 - 4.30 pm

Pre-conference

Promoting Research in Adult Literacy and Numeracy: Research informing practice and policy; practice and policy informing research

Details

5.30 - 7.00 pm

Welcome reception, The Muse

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

8.00 am

Registration opens

8.45 am

Welcome

Keynote speaker Dr Jeff Evans - Emeritus Reader at Middlesex University, UK

'Anticipating PIAAC: what to look for, and when to be wary'

Guest speaker

10.30 - 11.00 am

Morning Tea

11.00 - 1140 am

Group A sessions (choose 1 of 7) Themes

11.45 - 12.25 pm

Group B sessions (choose 1 of 7) Themes

12.30 - 1.30 pm

Lunch, networking, displays

1.30 - 2.10 pm

Group C sessions (choose 1 of 7) Themes

2.15 - 2.55 pm

Group D sessions (choose 1 of 7) Themes

3.00 - 3.30 pm

Afternoon tea

3.30 - 4.30 pm

Plenary Dr Inge Kral - Research Fellow, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University

'Language and Literacy Socialisation: From the local to the global in the remote Indigenous context'

4.45 pm

ACAL AGM

6.00 - 8.00 pm

Harbour View Gathering in Sydney's historic Rocks precinct. (ticketed event)

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

8.30 am

Registration

8.45 - 9.00 am

Welcome

9.00 - 10.00 am

Professor Mary Hamilton - Lancaster University, UK

'Tracing the Global in the Local'

10.00 - 10.30 am

Guest speaker

10.30 - 11.00

Morning tea

11.00 - 11.40 am

Group E sessions (choose 1 of 7) Themes

11.45 - 12.25 pm

Group F sessions (choose 1 of 7) Themes

12.30 - 1.30 pm

Lunch, networking, displays

1.30 - 2.10 pm

Group G sessions (choose 1 of 7) Themes

2.15 - 2.55 pm

Group H sessions (choose 1 of 7) Themes

3.00 - 3.30 pm

Afternoon tea

3.30 - 4.30 pm

Professor Alastair Pennycook – University of Technology, Sydney

'Learning from the Other End: Early literacies and language mobilities'

4.30 - 5.00 pm

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