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Call for PresentationsTeachers, researchers, program managers and policy analysts working in the adult literacy and numeracy field are invited to express an interest in presenting a paper, delivering a workshop or forming part of a panel discussion. Submit a proposal by May 6, 2011. Australian Council for Adult Literacy 34th National Conference Keynote speakersWe are pleased to announce the following keynote speakers.
Alan Attwood was born in Scotland and emigrated to Australia with his family when he was four. He has worked as an abalone packer, dishwasher, schoolbook salesman and mail sorter, but mainly as a journalist, specialising in not specialising. In a career spanning over three decades he has written for publications ranging from The Sunday Times, London, to Time magazine. He won a Walkley Award for coverage of Sport in 1998 and subsequently was a columnist for The Age. Since November 2006 he has been Editor of The Big Issue magazine, the national, independent publication sold by street vendors throughout Australia. 
Kathryn Shugg is the Branch Manager of the Foundation Skills Branch, in the Skills Group of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and has been in this role since June 2010. In this position she is responsible for implementing a range of policy and program responses aimed at improving the foundation skills of adult Australians, including a suite of complementary programs targeted at key cohorts and tailored to their specific needs: the WELL Program; the Language Literacy and Numeracy Program (LLNP); the Australian Apprenticeships Access Program; Language Literacy and Numeracy (LLN) Practitioner Scholarships Program; and Foundation Skills Taster Course Program. 
Stephen Black is currently a researcher in the Centre for Research in Learning and Change at the University of Technology, Sydney. He first began work in adult literacy and numeracy as a ‘remedial’ teacher in NSW prisons in 1980, and he has worked and researched in the field ever since that time. His research has focused on the role of literacy and numeracy in the lives of many groups of people, including prisoners, TAFE students, local council workers, and community groups learning about health. 
Robin Shreeve has worked in the skills sector for more than 30 years in Australia and England. He is currently the Chief Executive of Skills Australia. Skills Australia is an independent advisory body advising the Australian Government on workforce development and workforce skill needs. Prior to this appointment Robin was Principal of the City of Westminster College, a multi campus Further Education institution located in central London.  Keiko Yasukawa is a lecturer in adult education at the University of Technology Sydney. She started her career in pure mathematics where she completed her doctorate. Since then her career has deviated into more ‘impure’ domains, including work in the Engineering faculty where she taught critical numeracy and literacy to engineering students and in the Adult Education program where she works currently. She coordinates and teaches in the undergraduate and postgraduate courses in adult literacy and numeracy. She is currently completing a research project on integrated literacy and numeracy support in VET with Stephen Black. |
Further informationContact Don MacDowall, Conference Organiser Email info@valbec.org.au Phone 03 9546 6892 Post VALBEC, Box 861, Springvale South VIC 3172 Conference website www.valbec.org.au/2011conf/
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