An adult learning classroom is a dynamic environment. Complex variables - learning content, student-teacher and student-student interactions, student aspirations, learning spaces - all combine to ...generate great learning opportunities and relationships but there is also the potential for tension and conflict. Racism is one example of a potential source of conflict. It is up to organisations, and in turn teachers, to establish an antiracist environment.
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News and current affairs are a predominant content area in adult literacy learning. Current affairs topics are used for developing skills for reading comprehension, vocabulary development and ...critical thinking. Current affairs topics are also a valuable resource for, in Freire's words, "reading the world".
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Adult Literacy Connect is a network of adult language, literacy and numeracy professionals, which was formed after a one-day Adult Literacy Round Table convened by Public Libraries Victoria in 2016. ...Members include Victorian Adult
Literacy and Basic Education Council (VALBEC) representatives, staff from public libraries and other interested practitioners. The group's mission is to: strengthen the collaborative capacity of libraries, adult educators and the
community to support adult literacy learning. One of the key issues identified at the Round Table was the lack of access to resources for teaching adult literacy. Currently there is no central, curated and quality online site for adult
literacy resources in Australia. Many important and useful resources developed in the past are no longer publicly available or sit with specific organisations and are difficult to access. Author abstract
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Climate change is escalating year by year and we are seeing the disastrous, apocalyptic, frightening, monumental destruction of the environment across the world. More than ever, as educators we have ...a duty and opportunity to work with our learners to understand and take control of the multitude of environmental issues that are impacting our work, community and personal lives.
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In August this year, the Victorian Skills Authority announced that expanding partnerships between Learn Locals and TAFEs would be a key strategy for improving access to education and training in its ...first Victorian Skills Plan (Victorian Skills Authority, 2022, p.12). As the email above shows, resourceful staff at Learn Locals and TAFEs have already started forging such partnerships. We asked Sarah Deasey from Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre (CNLC) and Joanna Osborne from William Angliss Institute (WAI) to talk about the successful partnership they forged.
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The federal government has conducted a review into VET with consultations across the sector taking place between November 2018 and January 2019. Steven Joyce, the former New Zealand Minister for ...Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment, has conducted the review on behalf of the Morrison government. The findings are to be presented in March 2019. This article presents an overview of the responses to the review, which are relevant to the adult literacy sector, include those submitted by the Australian Council of Adult Literacy (ACAL), Adult Learning Australia (ALA) in conjunction with Neighbourhood Houses Victoria, Community Colleges Australia (CCA), and the Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA).
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