LERN Conference Themes

Araluen Arts Centre Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
1-4 October 1997

Conference Themes

Theme 1: Literacy Teaching for the Future

• Multiliteracies: The New Literacy Demands of Citizenship, Community Life and Work
• English Literacy and Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
• Where Literacy Meets Technology: The Internet, Multimedia and New Communications Technologies
• Teaching and Learning Languages Other than English
• Testing Times: Assessment and Accountability

Theme 2: Cross-Cultural, Anti-Racism and International Education

• Multicultural Education: Redefining the Mainstream
• Globalisation: What Everyone Needs to Learn
• International Education and Cross-Cultural Education
• Anti-Racism Education
• Indigenous Australian Studies
• Cross-Cultural Training: Schools and Workplaces
• Education for Cultural Self-Determination
• For Culture or the Market? What to Teach in an Era of Economic Rationalism

Theme 3: Learning and the New Information Technologies

• The Internet, Multimedia and Learning to Access Information
• The New Workplace: Its Software and its Hardware
• Computer Literacy
• What We Learn and How We Learn: The Impacts of Technology

Theme 4: Vocational Education, Adult Education and Training

• Making the Links between School and Work
• Competencies or Capabilities? The Goals of Vocational Education
• New Directions in Tertiary Teaching
• Workplace Training
• Adult Literacy and English as a Second Language
• Small Business and Enterprise Training