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In 2018 the Australian Council of Adult Literacy begins the next stage of its career. After 40 years of actively promoting language literacy and numeracy, and communication provision and research, ACAL begins to look to the future needs of its members and their learners.<\/p>\n
This Conference offers an opportunity to take a moment to reconfigure our practice in the light of research and practice in understanding how learners\u2019 personal histories can help and hinder their engagement with language, literacy and numeracy. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The conference title \u2018Learning in diverse communities \u2013 Strengths, Reflections, Questions\u2019 sets the process by which every educator can pause to reflect and reframe their practice in the light of researchers and practitioners recounts of their theories and understandings of learners from diverse backgrounds.<\/p>\n How can we recognise the sound pedagogical practices within these diverse learning communities?<\/p>\n How can we respond to the changing needs of these diverse communities?<\/p>\n How do we continue to build the professional capabilities of LLN practitioners?<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.0.89″ background_color_1=”rgba(237,240,0,0.32)” background_color_2=”rgba(124,218,36,0.6)” background_color_3=”rgba(131,0,233,0.35)” make_fullwidth=”on” width_unit=”off” custom_width_px=”701px” use_custom_gutter=”on” gutter_width=”1″ custom_margin=”-60px|||” padding_bottom_1=”50px” padding_bottom_2=”50px” padding_bottom_3=”50px”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.89″ background_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.89)” background_layout=”light” text_line_height=”2.2em” max_width=”75%” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”-300px|||” custom_margin_tablet=”0px|||” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|tablet” custom_padding=”20px|20px|20px|20px” border_radii=”on|17px|17px|17px|17px” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.89″ background_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.89)” background_layout=”light” text_line_height=”2.2em” max_width=”75%” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”-220px|||” custom_margin_tablet=”0px|||” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|desktop” custom_padding=”50px|50px|50px|50px” border_radii=”on|17px|17px|17px|17px” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.0.89″ background_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.89)” background_layout=”light” text_line_height=”2.2em” max_width=”75%” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”-300px|||” custom_margin_tablet=”0px|||” custom_margin_last_edited=”on|tablet” custom_padding=”20px|20px|20px|20px” border_radii=”on|17px|17px|17px|17px” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2018 the Australian Council of Adult Literacy begins the next stage of its career. After 40 years of actively promoting language literacy and numeracy, and communication provision and research, ACAL begins to look to the future needs of its members and their learners. This Conference offers an opportunity to take a moment to reconfigure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acal.edu.au\/2018conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}