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Conference Themes
Theme 1: LANGUAGES OF LEARNING: Communication
and Language Teaching for the Future
- Language, communication and the promise of educational opportunity: what are the 'basics'?
- Teaching English as a world language
- Multilingual teaching and learning
- Learning in culturally and linguistically diverse environments: What is appropriate teaching?
- Working with differences within languages: subcultural, professional, workplace, technical
- Visual communication: its increasing importance
Theme 2: WORLDS OF LEARNING: Globalisation and Multicultural Education
- Globalisation: What everyone needs to learn, and dealing with the anxieties
- Internationalising the curriculum in schools, higher education, vocational training and workplaces
- The ethics and competencies of globalisation: skills and attitudes for cross-cultural interaction
- National, indigenous, multicultural, global identities: the role of education
- Gender differences and cultural differences: challenges for teaching and learning
Theme 3: TECHNOLOGIES OF LEARNING: Learning through and about the new information technologies
- Internet literacy, multimedia communication, screen-based interfaces: what every learner needs to know
- Virtual classrooms
- Self-paced learning
- Interactive computer-based learning
- Rural, remote and distance learning: using the new technologies of learning
- Repackaging learning: educational consumerism and service packaging from Disneyworld to global 'infotainment' and 'edutainment'
Theme 4: WAYS OF LEARNING: The Revolution in Teaching and Learning
- Where do people learn? Who teaches? Broadening domains of education, from early childhood, to workplaces, communities and lifelong learning
- Sports, arts and media as places of learning
- Market forces in education: changing our teaching and learning relationships
- The future for teachers and teachers' work: status, career paths, futures
- Learning to teach: new directions in teacher training
- Special education: catering for different learning styles, paces of learning
- The expanding curriculum: how much can schools teach? What are the new 'basics'?
- Testing times: measuring performance and developing indicators of attainment
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