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Lifelong learning for
a fairer Australia

Lifelong learning for
a fairer Australia

Mentoring event 3: Do you need support teaching adult numeracy?

Adult Learning Australia is offering three numeracy mentoring sessions that will complement our innovative 8-part: What Works: Teaching Adult Numeracy series Numeracy expert, Dave Tout, will run three informal Q&A and mentoring sessions to respond to your individual queries and questions about adult numeracy. These mentoring sessions are a great opportunity for some individualised mentoring […]

What works professional learning series workshop 5: Getting from here to there with numeracy

Session 5: Getting from here to there with numeracy This session explores practical strategies to help educators support adults comprehend different aspects of time, use maps (including digital maps), follow directions, and travel with ease to new locations (working out time intervals and durations, interpreting timetables and schedules, etc.)     Our facilitators This webinar […]

What works professional learning series workshop 6: Numeracy, statistics and big data

Session 6: Numeracy, statistics and big data Hands-on approaches that use data to reveal quantitative and statistical numeracy concepts as they relate to the workplace and everyday life.   Our facilitators        

What works professional learning series workshop 7: Making sense of money and your finances

Session 7: Making sense of money and your finances Creates links between numeracy and financial literacy – covering key numeracy concepts including calculations, numbers and decimals, etc.   This webinar is free for ALA members, or $65 for non-members. We are offering a discounted price of $400 for the full series for non-members. You can […]

Adult Learners Week 2022 launch

Connect with learning Join us at the Adult Learners Week 2022 launch as we hear stories from inspiring people who have found connection and opportunity through learning. Rusty Berther – our MC – Rusty started his working life flipping burgers at Maccas then worked as a roof plumber before finding success and touring the world […]

What works professional learning series workshop 8: Developing basic numeracy for the workplace

This is the final session in our what works professional learning series. Explores ways to support adults with workplace numeracy concepts; including formulae, measurements, rates and ratios, estimation, accuracy and tolerances.   Our facilitators  

Journalist/Professional Writer – Freelancer

Do you have a knack for telling a good story? Are you an amazing journalist/professional writer who loves engaging with the community? Adult Learning Australia is seeking a skilled, experienced, and self-motivated individual with a minimum of 3 years of experience in journalism/professional writing to produce stories for Quest, ALA’s quarterly magazine. Our emphasis is […]

Virtual workshop: Climate just pedagogy – what lessons have we learned?

PIMA webinar series: climate justice and ALE presents Climate Just Pedagogy – what lessons have we learned? A webinar co-hosted by PIMA, CASAE, ALA, MOJA and SCUTREA   Over the last eighteen months PIMA, in collaboration with the Canadian Association for Studies in Adult Education (CASAE), Adult Learning Australia (ALA) and Standing Conference on University […]

What works professional learning series workshop 1: Starting points to teaching adults numeracy

Session 1: Starting points to teaching adults numeracy This workshop will explore hands-on approaches to teaching numeracy using simple everyday materials – covering different levels and different maths content, including: estimating skills measurement (time and mass) money and decimals.   Our facilitators This webinar is free for ALA members, or $65 for non-members. We are […]

ALA 2022 AGM

Date: Friday 20 May 2022, 1:00pm AEST via Zoom Guest speaker: Kerry Johnson, CEO, ACE Community Colleges will share her story about the impact of the recent floods on ACE campuses such as Lismore and Murwillumbah. This year’s AGM will present the 2022 Annual Report, announce the results of this year’s Board elections and feature […]

Special edition of Australian Journal of Adult Learning out now!

Freire’s life and work It is the centenary of Paulo Freire’s birth and over fifty years since the publication of his most famous work Pedagogy of the Oppressed in English. In this Special Edition of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning (AJAL) we want to mark his extraordinary contribution as an educator, thinker and activist […]

Summer issue of Quest

Our end of year issue of Quest  features great stories about the power of adult education to help people live more sustainably and protect the environment, recover from trauma and turn their lives around through lifelong learning. In the issue we’ve got a range of inspiring stories about the power of adult education across the […]

ALA webinar IV: What works: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities – adult literacy and learning

  Adult Learning Australia’s national conversation continues, bringing together representatives of leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adult education organisations to explore ‘What works: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities – adult literacy and learning’ in response to the Federal government’s inquiry into adult literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills in Australia.   Welcome Rebecca Arbon […]

Climate Justice and Adult Learning and Education

Shirley Walters – Professor Emerita, University of the Western Cape, South Africa and PIMA President.

Stories of lifechanging adult education in our latest issue of Quest

Our latest issue of Quest unearths great stories of lifechanging adult education  — from Adult Learners Week keynote speakers, learning ambassadors, scholarship winners and more. During the launch of Adult Learners Week, guest speaker Simon Fenech shared how hitting rock bottom after his release from prison was the catalyst for his role as a mentor. […]