ACAL - Australian Council for Adult Literacy
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ACAL Conference 2008 • ‘Surfing outside the flags: catching waves, avoiding rips’
Surfers Paradise on October 2 to 4, 2008
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More than 40 abstracts for presentationshave been received, from around Australia, from Scotland, Canada and from our friends in New Zealand. These will soon be available on the website.
Get photos and information about keynote speakers: Noyona Chanda, Hermine Scheeres, Michael Balfour and Colleen Mitrow.
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 Dr Chris Duncan (ABS) in examining 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.
The conference title ‘Surfing outside the flags: catching waves, avoiding rips’ has been chosen to reflect the venue for the conference and also as a metaphor to raise issues and provoke debate. Conference themes include: Indigenous literacy & numeracy, vocational & workplace literacy & numeracy, meeting the literacy & numeracy needs of African refugees, numeracy, and community literacy.
The conference is for any person with an interest in, and concern for, adult literacy and numeracy in communities, workplaces, educational and training institutions, and governments. Conference participants may include adult literacy and numeracy researchers, adult literacy and numeracy teachers and other practitioners, vocational teachers and trainers, volunteer tutors, policy makers and tertiary students studying in the areas of literacy, numeracy and vocational training.
The conference will also include a number of seminars and workshops presented by practitioners, teachers and researchers. More details ...
The Adult Literacy and Life Skills (ALLS) survey
Hear the ABC program 'The World Today' interview with Dave Tout about the survey, broadcast on Thursday, February 21, 2008
The results of this survey, released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, about the time of the Federal election in November 2007, continue to attract interest from many groups - including the media.
You can read the ACAL position paper Moving forward: Towards a Literate Australia (Jan 2008) (PDF 120KB).
You can also read the ABS summary of findings at the ABS web site, search on 'adult literacy' or use the code '4228.0'
(PDF 100KB) 'Adult literacy - a crucial part of the education revolution'
Moving forward: Towards a Literate Australia
(Jan 2008)
(PDF 120KB)
An ACAL Position Paper on the 2006 Adult Literacy and Lifeskills survey
….. and literacy beyond the classroom
ACAL’s approach to literacy as both lifelong and lifewide
(PDF 80KB)
Presented by Dr Pauline O'Maley to the ACAL Conference in New Zealand (Sept 2007)
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All documents are PDF format.
