Joining the Dots Conference 7 December 2018 Program

8.30	Registration
9.00	Welcome & introduction (Room: Harris)	Acknowledge of country Welcome from the NSW Adult Literacy & Numeracy Council Conference overview
9.20	Plenary speaker - Dr Julie Choi (Room: Harris)	Immigrant and refugee women’s resourcefulness in English language classrooms: emerging possibilities through plurilingualism Discussant: Polly Craig
10.05	Plenary speaker  - Phil Kane (Room: Harris)	Researching workplace numeracy as a social practice - case studies from New Zealand Discussant: Jill Finch
10.40	Morning tea
11.10	Panel Damian Oliver Stewart Burkitt Warren Poole) Jill Biddington (Room: Harris)	Strengthening the role of ABE practitioners for learners, their families and their communities
12.00	Lunch
	Roundtables 1   (Room: Harris)		Roundtables and paper 2  (Room: Jones)
1.00-1.40	ROUNDTABLE 1.1  TAFE Outreach sewing basics and numeracy Lisa Faye, Bryony Gliddon & Jo Sykes		ROUNDTABLE 2.1  Joining the dots: between critical online government services and users from migrant and refugee backgrounds Lynda Cameron, Bernard Lewis & Lucy Brennan
1.45-2.25	ROUNDTABLE 1.2  Show and tell is for teachers too! Polly Craig,  Kerry Hooper Richardson & Louise Mesker		ROUNDTABLE 2.2  Tap, swipe and scroll – digital literacy and the LLN learner Elisabeth Gahl & Samara Coulter
2.35-3.15	ROUNDTABLE 1.3  Project-based learning – providing opportunities to apply key employability skills in the Australian context Gwyn Denton		PAPER 2.3  Distance education and the literacy learner: quandry or solution Debra Urquhart
3.20-4.00	ROUNDTABLE 1.4  Synthetic phonics Heather Beebee & Michele Perry

Workshop- Teaching and learning more than Foundation Skills - 28th June 2018

Teaching and learning more than foundation skills Workshop 5.30-6.30, Thursday, 28th June 2018 Room Cb10.5.580, Building 10, UTS,  Jones St, Ultimo In this workshop, participants will consider both the imperative for, and possibilities of,  teachingmore than ‘foundation skills’ to our adult literacy and numeracy learners. Workshop  facilitators Pam Osmond, Janet Dyne and Keiko Yasukawa will present some stimulus ideas  for rich educational experiences which, where necessary, can be ‘reverse engineered’ to  match training package/ curriculum outcomes. Working from these ideas, participants will  work together to outline teaching and learning ideas and activities that address skills and  knowledge that matter for their adult learners. Pam Osmond is a long-term adult literacy/ numeracy teacher, resource developer,  researcher and teacher educator Janet Dyne is an adult literacy, numeracy  and learner support teacher at Ultimo TAFE.  She’s worked in education centres in a wide range of urban and remote communities and  at the Long Bay Correctional Complex.  Keiko Yasukawa is an adult literacy and numeracy teacher educator and researcher  at the University of Technology Sydney. Workshop free for 2018 NSWALNC Members and $20 for Non-Members.

2018 AGM Thursday 28 June

The NSWALNC will hold its Annual General Meeting at 6.30 pm on 28 June 2018. The AGM will be held in Room Cb10.5.580, Building 10, Jones St, University of Technology, Sydney.

All Welcome

2018 Conference Date - Friday 7 December

The 2018 NSWALNC Conference will be held on Friday 7 December. Put it in your diary. Registrations will open in August.

Seminar - 5.30, Tues 8 May 2018 - Erik Jacobsen's article "Workforce Development Rhetoric and the Realities of 21C Capitalism"

       The Council has had feedback from several members that they are finding it increasingly difficult to stay current with, and access scholarly research that could inform our practice. This year, we plan to host at least two seminars where colleagues in the field can read and discuss some recent research publications together. A member of the Council Committee will lead the discussion.

       Our first such seminar will focus on a 2016 paper written by the Erik Jacobson, an ABE researcher in the USA: ‘Workforce Development Rhetoric and the Realities of 21st Century Capitalism’. In his paper, Jacobson calls upon those in the field of adult basic education to question some of the premises upon which many adult literacy and numeracy programs, particularly for long-term unemployed people, are based. He then argues that ‘students and teachers in adult education should focus on developing structural analyses of the situation [where large numbers of people find themselves in poverty] and push for substantive changes in the economy’. In preparing for the seminar, we invite you to consider the following questions:

• How do the premises upon the programs Jacobson critiques compare with the
• premises that are salient in Australian discourses surrounding programs such as SEE,
• and adults identified as low literacy/ numeracy learners;
• How do you understand the shift in focus of adult education that Jacobson is
• advocating for; do you believe this is also needed in Australian ABE?
• What would an adult education program with the kind of changes Jacobson is
• advocating for look like; what would it mean for the role and capabilities of ABE
• teachers?

         Participants at this seminar will be expected to have accessed and read the paper beforehand, so that the seminar can focus on discussion of the paper. The paper is freely accessible at:

https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/lnj/article/download/4898/5257

Erik Jacobson is also the author of Adult Basic Education in the Age of New Literacies (2016, Peter Lang Publishing).

Date: Tuesday 8 May, 2018

Time: 5.30-6.30 followed by light refreshments

Venue: University of Technology Sydney (Broadway) Bldg 10, level 5, room 580.

Cost: free for financial members of the Council, $20 for non-members (you can join the

Council at the seminar and not pay the $20).

RSVP: nswalnc@gmail.com