Conference Themes

Learning for the Future

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Theme 1: NEW WORLDS

• Multimedia, the internet and today's media: learning about and through the new information technologies.
• Globalisation and multiculturalism: the learning consequences.
• Mathematics, science, art, social studies, history and the traditional subject areas: old disciplines and new 'basics'.
• Lifelong learning for the society of constant change, from early childhood to workplace learning and learning-in-retirement.
• Learning in and out of school: just how much can be learnt in places of formal learning?
• Learning transitions: from home to school; from early to middle to later years of schooling; and from school to vocational and higher education.
  

Theme 2: NEW LITERACIES

• The 'basics' today: what are they?
• New languages, new literacies: the 'multilteracies' of our multimedia and global communications environments.
• English as a world language.
• The verbal and the visual: where language meets visual design.
• 'Foreign' language learning, multilingualism and cross-cultural communication.
• Girls, boys and literacy.
• Adult , community and workplace literacies.
  

Theme 3: NEW LEARNING

• Learning just in time and just enough: learning when and where you need to know.
• Virtual worlds, virtual classrooms: interactive, self-paced and autonomous learning.
• Distance learning in a global environment: so what's distant?
• New learning institutions: self-governing schools, community-based schools, education as a business.
• The future of the university.
• Vocational education and training for the future.
• Educational leadership and management: today's challenges.
• New teachers and new teaching: the role of pre-service and inservice professional training.
  

Theme 4: NEW PERSONS

• The changing purposes of education: shaping new kinds of worker, citizen and personal identities.
• Education as the core of the new economy: cultural capital, intellectual property, human resources.
• Competence, ability, capacity, intelligence: redefining the terms.
• Border crossings: educating whole persons for a multicultural and global era.
• Equity in and through education: today's challenges.
• Indigenous, immigrant, national, regional, global: juggling multiple identities.
• Gender, disability, socio-economic differences: negotiating the social dynamics of the classroom.
• Open, culturally reflexive, autonomous and socially responsible thinkers: how are the formed?
• Non-linear learning: new ways of thinking and new knowledge.
• Knowing the world to transform the world: education for personal and contextual transformation.