Johannesburg, South Africa

This conference aims to address a range of issues relating to education today. According to the organisers, this is a conference for any person with an interest in, and concern for, education at any of its levels and in any of its forms - from early childhood education, to schools, to higher education and lifelong learning - and in any of its sites - from home to school to university to the workplace. The Learning Conference is held annually in different locations around the world, each selected for the particular role education is playing in social, cultural and economic change.

The conference has been organised according to the following streams:

• Curriculum and Pedagogy
• Student Learning, Learner Experiences, Learner Diversity
• Educational Leadership and Management
• Equity, Social Justice and Social Change
• Technology in Learning
• Community, Culture, Globalisation
• Adult, Vocational, Tertiary and Professional Learning
• Literacy, Language, Multiliteracies
• Languages Education and Second Language Learning
• Special Education, Learning Difficulties, Disability
• Maths, Science and Technology Learning
• Arts, Drama and Design
• Organisational Learning, Organisational Change
• Teacher Training and Development

The conference aims to cover four main themes:

1. Educational Values and Values in Education
2. Transforming Literacies
3. Humanising Science and Technology
4. Sites of Learning

These will cover some of the following content:

• Teaching, Learning and Democracy
• Faith, Multiculturalism and Learning
• Learning and Health
• Learning and HIV/AIDS
• Learning, Literacies and Local Knowledges
• Learning and Teaching in the Postcolony
• Literacy, Learning and Sustainable Development
• Schools,Violence and Learning
• Learning, Agency, Creativity
• Learning and Assessment
• Multilingualism and Learning
• Learning and Migration /Learning and the Diaspora
• The Learning Promises of ICT in Developing World Contexts
• Knowledges for a Teacher Education Curriculum
• Distance Learning and the Web

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According to the organisers the following people should attend: Academics and researchers, teachers, educational managers, higher degree students, educators or educational administrators working in areas ranging from early childhood, to school, to vocational and higher education, to workplace and lifelong learning.

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