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Learning on a Human Scale:
Negotiating Global Cultures and New Technologies
Theme 1: LEARNING TO COMMUNICATE
- Navigating the world of meaning: Reading in a multimedia environment
- 'Literacies' and changes to Global English
- The new multilingualism
- Multiliteracies: global and multicultural; visual as well as textual
- Gender and literacy
- Literacy and communication across the subject areas
Theme 2: TOOLS FOR LEARNING
- Learning on, through and about the new information highways
- Multimedia, online learning and flexible delivery: new tools for learning
- New technologies in new classrooms
- Distance learning: extending the possibilities
- Changing educational work: from teachers to instructional designers
Theme 3: LIFELONG LEARNING
- The changing dimensions of vocational education and training
- Higher education in a time of transition
- Work integrated learning: blurring the boundaries
- Serving the knowledge economy: learning organisations and their cultures
- Learning to lead in the new educational workplace
- Adult education @ 21st century: A focus on the future
- Adult literacies
Theme 4: GLOBAL LEARNING
- Understanding globalisation: what educators and their students need to learn
- Working with diverse classrooms: multiple identities and multiple intelligences
- Becoming global citizens: cross-cultural and international education
- Local diversity and global connections: the task of multicultural education
- Communities of learners: maintaining robust local and community identities
- Indigenous learning in a changing global environment
