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...With an International
Focus
January 29-31, 1997
Winter Institute 1997 - Atlanta,
Georgia
Org.: Georgia Institute of Technology and The Centre for
Literacy of Quebec
The Second Annual Winter Institute of Adult Basic Education and Technology,
presented by the Georgia Tech Satellite Literacy Program, in cooperation with
the Centre for Literacy of Quebec.
Contact: Barbara Christopher 1-800-428-7323 or (404) 853-0561
E-mail:
barbara.christopher@arch.gatech.edu
March 23-26, 1997
The Second Global Conference on Lifelong
Learning - Investing in Human Potential: Making Strategic Choices
Org:
The Canadian Alliance for Lifelong Learning (CALL) and the World Initiative on
Lifelong Learning
Concentrates on the practical issues surrounding the implementation of
learner-centred environments, technological and social strategies as well as
metho methodologies; an innovative, interactive event. Five sub-themes:
pre-school and school levels, adult learning, colleges and universities,
community learning and the workplace.
Contact: Canadian Alliance for Lifelong Learning
20 Bay Street,
Suite 400
Toronto, ON M5J 2W1
Tel. (416) 325-4211
E-mail:
call@gsro.carleton.ca
World Wide
Web: http://gcll.carleton.ca
April 20-22, 1997
1997 International Family Literacy
Conference: The Power and the Promise
Louisville, Kentucky USA
Org.:
National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL)
Contact: Carmel Mackin
(502) 584-1133
July 4-6, 1997
Lifelong Learning: Reality, Rhetoric and
Public Policy
Guildford, England
Org.: University of Surrey,
UK, the European Society for Research in the Education of Adults (ESREA) and
the UK Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research (SCUTREA)
Forum for practitioners, researchers, policy-makers and scholars to examine
the phenomenon of lifelong learning with an aim to promote critical and
comparative research, as well as discussion and exchange about policy and
practice.
Contact: John Holford, Dept Educational Studies
University of Surrey
Guildford,
England, GU2 5X9
Tel. (44) 1 483 300800 - ext. 3169
Fax (44) 1483 25919
E-mail:
j.holford@surrey.ac.uk
July 14-16, 1997
5th International Conference on Adult
Education (CONFINTEA V) - Adult Learning: A Key for the Twenty-first Century
Hamburg,
Germany
Org.: UNESCO
Some of the Conference themes:
- Ensuring the Universal Right to Literacy and Basic Education
- Adult Learning in the Context of Environment, Health and Population
Contact: UNESCO Institute for Education
Feldbrunnenstr. 58,
D-20148
Hamburg, Germany.
Tel. +49-40-448041-0
Fax +49-40-4107723
E-mail:
uie@unesco.org
August 12-16, 1997
FLEAT III Conference (The Foreign
Language Education and Technology Conference III)
Victoria, BC, Canada
Org.:
International Association for Learning Laboratories (IALL) and Language
Laboratory Association of Japan (LLA)
"Languages, Resources and Cultures" will provide a forum for
discussion between members of the community who teach, create, present
resources, work with technology, and keep Language Centres going throughout the
year.
Contact: Mary Sanseverino, Coordinator
Language Centre,
University of Victoria, BC
Tel.(604) 721-8294
Fax (604) 721-8778
E-mail:
msanseve@uvic.ca
World Wide Web:
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/fleat3/
...with a National or Provincial
Focus:
Jan 20-22, 1997
23rd National Consultation on Career
Development (NATCOM)
Ottawa, Ontario
Org.: Counselling
Foundation of Canada, Human Resources Development Canada and the Career Centre
of the University of Toronto
Topics to be addressed at the conference: educational initiatives, research
projects, community development programs and future trends.
Contact: Angela Sidoriak, NATCOM Office
University of Toronto,
Career Centre
214 College Street
Toronto, ON M5T 2Z9
Tel. (416) 978-8011
Fax (416) 978-2271
March 7-8, 1997
Workshops organized by the Learning Disabilities
Association of Saskatchewan:
1- "Raising a Happy, Healthy Family; Roots
and Wings/ Parenting the Learning Disabled Child"
2- "The Hidden
Curriculum; Helping the Mainstream Student to Survive; Motivating the Reluctant
Learner"
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Org.: Learning
Disabilities Association of Saskatchewan
Two workshops presented by Richard Lavoie, developer of the F.A.T. City
Workshop to acquaint adults with the frustration, anxiety and tension inherent
in learning disabilities.
Contact : LDAS
#26-610 Clarence Avenue S.
Saskatoon, SK
S7H 2E2
Tel. (306) 652-4114
Fax (306) 652-3220
World Wide Web:
http://www.nald.ca/ldas.htm
April 27-30, 1997
AACE Spring Conference - "Leading
Together: Fostering Success in a Diverse Learning Community"
Kananaskis
Alberta
Org.: Alberta Association of Continuing Education (AACE)
A conference that addresses one of the most critical issues we face as adult
educators and learners: how to build a learning community where opportunity
meets the needs of learners in a rapidly transforming learning environment.
Contact: Dianne Conrad, Faculty of Extension
93 University
Campus NW
University of Alberta, T6G 2T4
Tel. (403) 492-1501
Fax
(403) 492-1857
E-mail: dianne.conrad@ualberta.ca
May 22-25, 1997
Laubach Literacy of Canada Annual General
Meeting and Biennial Conference
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Org.:
LLC - Manitoba
Workshop Topics: Reading, Writing, Self-Esteem, Learning and Teaching
Strategies, How to Write a Funding Proposal, Family Literacy, Learning
Disabilities
Contact: Karen Boscamp
Margaret Underhill School
Room 102
25
Regina Place
Winnipeg MB R2C 0S5
Tel. (204) 224-9099
June 1-3, 1997
Association of Canadian Community Colleges
Annual Conference 1997
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Org.: ACCC
Presentations and workshops at the Annual Conference will showcase
innovations in Canada's colleges and technical institutes' approach to learning
and utilizing new technologies.
Contact: Gail Mulhall
ACCC Conference Coordinator
(613)
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