Extending Practices...Building Networks An Institute on Research in Practice in Adult Literacy – June 17-21, 2003
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WEDNESDAY, June 18, 2003

7:30 - 8:30 a.m.   Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 12:00 noon   Concurrent Courses
Various Rooms,
Education Bldg

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.   Lunch with Affinity Groups

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.   Workshops
Various Rooms,
Education Bldg

  • Violence and Learning: Taking Action (VALTA). Learnings from the Changing Practices Project

  • Voice Activated Computer Literacy Project

  • Practical Research Approaches for Communities

  • Reading Policy

  • What Makes Literacy/ABE Instructors Effective in their Practice? 

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.   Break

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.   Inquiry Sessions
Various Rooms,
Education Bldg

  • The Role of Academically Trained Researchers in Practice

  • Student Participation in the Research Process

  • Understanding Learning and Literacy in a School Board Employment Preparation Program

  • Sharing Research and Reflections: The journal needs you!

  • Is literacy viewed as an accessibility issue among community services that do not have a literacy program?

6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

  • After the Institute: Staying Connected

THURSDAY, June 19, 2003

7:30 - 8:30 a.m.   Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 12:00 noon   Concurrent Courses
Various Rooms,
Education Bldg

12:00 - 1:30 p.m.   Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.   Workshops
Various Rooms

  • Reading Our Work: Implications for practices from researching literacies as social practice

  • Letters Home from South Africa

  • Doing Freedom: Ethnography of an adult literacy centre

  • The Myth of Objectivity: Whose knowledge is it?

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.   Break

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.   Affinity Groups Meet

6:15 - 9:00 p.m.   A Newfoundland & Labrador Evening

  • Supper and live entertainment