Presenter: Various
When: 8 September 2021 @ 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Duration: 90 mins
Cost: FREE
Celebrating Adult Learners Week and UNESCO International Literacy Day
Adult Learning Australia’s national conversation will bring together leading education organisations to explore their submissions into the Australian federal government’s inquiry into adult literacy and its importance.
Welcome
- Judith McKay (MC) – Executive Board Member – Adult Learning Australia
Keynote
- Analiese Robertson– Director – ACE Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Panel: Adult literacy approaches – what works?
Co-convenors
- Ros Bauer – Board Member – Adult Learning Australia
- Jo Medlin – President – Australian Council of Adult Literacy
Panelists
- Dr Cath Ferguson – Senior Research Fellow Edith Cowan University, WA – Read Write Now
- Barbara Napanangka Martin – Deputy Chair, Warlpiri Education and Training Trust and Louise Stanley – Senior CDO – Central Land Council, NT
- Michelle Circelli – Senior Researcher – National Centre for Vocational Education Research
- Anita Planchon – Director Strategy and Engagement – Libraries Tasmania
- Catherine Scarth – CEO – Adult Multicultural Education Services Australia
- Dr Ron Wilson – President of the Australasian Corrections Education Association
- Jason Coutts – Assistant Secretary Foundation Skills Branch – Dept of Education, Skills and Employment
Learning Changes Lives Foundation
- Kathleen Priestly – Vice President – Adult Learning Australia
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