The 2007 conference of the Australian Council for Adult Literacy (ACAL) was organised jointly with Workbase: the New Zealand Centre for Workforce Literacy Development, ESOL Home Tutors and Literacy Aotearoa. The available presentations from the Pre-Conference Workshop are: (1) What works: research and practice in adult ESOL / Heide Spruck Wrigley; (2) Can you see it? The experience of integration of language, literacy and numeracy in the Australian vocational and education training system / Michelle Circelli and Louise Wignall; and (3) Foundation learning and e-assessment: adding value to teaching and learning / John Hattie and Alison Sutton.
The available presentations from Day One, Concurrent Sessions One are: (1.1) Mother tongue and ESOL literacy / Jenny Field and Dorothy Thwaite; (1.2) Indigenising adult literacy / Atawhai Li; (1.3) What is health literacy and how can we use it as a preventive approach to increasing chronic disease in our societies? / Pat Millar; (1.4) The Adult Numeracy Initiative: focusing on learner achievement / Gill Thomas, Victoria Yee, Kim Hastwell and Joan Morley; (1.5) Global/local racisms and adult literacy work / Sue Shore; (1.6) Valuing outcomes for family literacy / Bernardine Vester, Robin Houlker and Moana Whaanga; (1.7) The Get Real Factor / Louise Wignall; (1.9) Developing web-based dramatised scenarios / Keith Tyler-Smith and Terri Brian; (1.10) Literacy and the health sector: partnerships for social capital outcomes / Stephen Black; and (1.11) Supporting aspiring bilingual workers in the community services field / Anna Walker.
The available presentations from Day One, Concurrent Sessions Two are: (2.1) Future I don't know... and now? An investigation of pathways for EAL migrants and refugee students in New Zealand / Pat Strauss, Kevin Roach, Annelies Roskvist, Frank Smedley and Victoria Yee; (2.2) On our own terms: can adult literacy support Indigenous communities cultural continuity and dynamism? / Aneta Rawiri; (2.3) Formative assessment: it makes a difference / Alison Sutton and John Benseman; (2.4) Learning for living: evidence based adult learning / Anne Lee and Stephanie Doyle; (2.5) Face to face and online learning in the numeracy classroom / Julia Kearton and Libby Rowswell; (2.6) Digital stories / Debbie Soccio; (2.8) Adult literacy in Australia: a human capital model. Is there an alternative? / Margaret McHugh; and (2.10) Intergenerational literacy programmes / Jane Furness.
The available keynote and dinner addresses from Day One are: (1) Getting the most from this 'great' conference / keynote address from Ed Bernacki; (2) Bringing in the outside: implications for policy and practice / keynote address from Heide Spruck Wrigley; (3) Check up with Ed Bernacki; (4) Ask your Aunties / keynote panel: Carol Nicoll, Karen Sewell, Janice Shiner and Mary Anne Thompson; (5) The Power of And / Conference dinner speaker Pita Sharples.
The available presentations from Day Two, Concurrent Sessions Three are: (3.1) Critically reading and writing the words and the world / Ann Kelly; (3.3) Looking behind the numeracy component of the ALLS survey / Dave Tout; (3.4) Community and university research: consultation and collaboration / Sally Patrick and Frank Sligo; (3.5) The logic of whanau / Bronwyn Yates; (3.6) Getting business productivity benefits and literacy gains from workplace literacy programmes / Katherine Percy; (3.7) Experience and pictures then words: extending a language experience approach through technology / Celia Hope; (3.8) The NZ Draft Foundation Learning Progressions / Jill Heinrich; (3.10) The challenge of literacy: unions, workplaces and tertiary institutions / Chris Holland; (3.11) An innovative Australian partnership to build a self sustaining future for East Timor's Defence Force / Lorraine Sushames; and (3.12) Laying footprints / Estelle Rozinski and Jenny McGuirk.
The available presentations from Day Two, Concurrent Sessions Four are: (4.1) The power of engagement / Alison Reedy; (4.3) Workplace numeracy: reflections on learning, identity and training / Beth Marr; (4.5) Lost in translation: the problems and contradictions of a competency based model for adult literacy in South Africa / Elda Lyster; (4.6) ... and literacy beyond the classroom / Pauline O'Maley; (4.8) Evaluating the Upskilling Partnership projects / John Benseman and Ginnie Denny; (4.9) Choice, change and freedom / Haami (Sam) Chapman and Jodi Maniapoto; (4.10) The success of literacy team teaching in the trades classroom / Wendy Roberts, Kathleen Krsinich, Lisa James, Grant Cole and Dee Parker; (4.11) Interacting and engaging with technology / Helen Cartner and Elizabeth Brugh; and (4.12) Teaching critical thinking / Nicky Mohan.
The available presentations from the closing of Day Two are: (1) Preparing for the release of ALLS in Australia / Chris Duncan; (2) Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey: preparing for the release of ALLS / Paul Satherly; and (3) Check out with Ed Bernacki.
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