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Literacy and the Most Marginalized Children Presentations

Presentations from the Literacy and the most marginalised children: A dialogue on Australian and international experience roundtable, hosted by ACER with PLAN Australia at the State Library of Victoria on Tuesday 11 September 2012.

Introduction and welcome, Peter McGuckian
Overview and objective for the roundtable, Rachel Outhred
School workbook development project in South Africa, Veronica McKay
Peter McGuckian introduces Merv Hyde
Engaging with students through literacy and responding to diversity, Merv Hyde
Bilingual education and inclusive pedagogies for immigrant and refugee children, Dr Paul Molyneux
Disability inclusion in international development programs, Joanne Webber
Rethinking educational strategies for indigenous communities in the Philippines, Katherine Fell
Do leaders understand and use interactive teaching: A case study of Bangladesh, Adrian Beavis
Wrap-up brainstorming discussion

Introduction and Welcome
Peter McGuckian, ACER
from ACER on Vimeo.

Peter McGuckian is the Director of International Development at the Australian Council for Educational Research. Full bio

This presentation is also available as an audio file.

Overview and Objectives for the Roundtable
Dr Rachel Outhred, ACER
from ACER on Vimeo.

Dr Rachel Outhred is a Senior Research Fellow within the International Development program at the Australian Council for Educational Research. Full bio

This presentation is also available as an audio file.

School workbook development project in South Africa
Professor Veronica McKay, University of South Africa
from ACER on Vimeo.

This presentation is also available as an audio file.

Professor Veronica McKay is the Deputy Executive Dean of the College of Education at the University of South Africa (Unisa). She is an Apex scholar and has received numerous awards for teaching and learning materials developed under her leadership, including the prestigious Commonwealth of Learning award for the materials of the ABET Institute and the PANSALB award for the Kha Ri Guide materials which are available in 11 languages, in Braille and in South African sign language.

As an educationist and sociologist, Veronica’s research areas are broad and include interactive approaches to teaching, reading and second language teaching, social development, HIV/AIDS, gender issues, and ways of enhancing learning particularly through using the methods of distance education. In 1994, she established the ABET Institute at Unisa, which provided professional training for adult educators and implemented several large-scale development interventions for government; and has also undertaken a broad range of inter-disciplinary research for international bodies such as UNESCO, ADEA and ILO.

Peter McGuckian introduces Merv Hyde
from ACER on Vimeo.

This presentation is also available as an audio file.

Engaging with students through literacy and responding to diversity
Emeritus Professor Merv Hyde, University of the Sunshine Coast
from ACER on Vimeo.

This presentation is also available as an audio file.

Professor Emeritus Merv Hyde is Academic Director of the International Projects Group (IPG) and a researcher in the School of Science, Education and Engineering in the Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering at the University of the Sunshine Coast. An educator and psychologist, Merv has held a number of senior positions at Griffith University, including Chair of the Academic Board. His teaching areas include inclusive education, internationalisation of the curriculum and child development, learning and cognition; with research interests in inclusive education, impact evaluation of development education and developmental disability and deafness and hearing loss.

At the roundtable on Literacy and the most marginalised children, Merv presented on research from Indonesian Papua, which sough to investigate how teachers engage with local communities and how high school drop-out in years 1-3 impacts literacy.

Bilingual education and inclusive pedagogies for immigrant and refugee children
Dr Paul Molyneux, University of Melbourne
from ACER on Vimeo.

This presentation is also available as an audio file.

Dr Paul Molyneux is a Lecturer in Langauge and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne with responsibility for subjects in the Master of Teaching (Primary) and Master of Education courses. His research interests centre on issues of educational access and success for students from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds; and he is particularly interested in student identity formation, as issues of langauge, culture, and socio-economic status intersect with schooling. Paul currently leads a University of Melbourne team working on a Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development commissioned evaluation of an innovative Karen-English bilingual program in a high-growth corridor of the outer western suburbs of Melbourne, and at the roundtable presented on Bilingual Education and Inclusive Pedagogies for Immigrant and Refugee Children: Three Urban Case Studies.

Disability inclusion in international development programs
Joanne Webber, CBM Australia
from ACER on Vimeo.

This presentation is also available as an audio file.

Joanne Webber is the Inclusive Development Officer for CBM, the world’s largest international development organisation focused on disability. She has worked in a range of settings supporting mainstream inclusion of children with disabilities and is the final stages of her PhD in this area.

Joanne spoke about disability inclusion in international development programs. Read more at Inclusion Made Easy

Rethinking educational strategies for indigenous communities in the Philippines - Part 1
Katherine Fell, PLAN Australia
from ACER on Vimeo.

Rethinking educational strategies for indigenous communities in the Philippines - Part 2
Katherine Fell, PLAN Australia
from ACER on Vimeo.

This presentation is also available as an audio file.

Katherine Fell is a program officer with the Early Child Care and Development/Education Team at PLAN Australia. Katherine has been working closely with remote indigenous communities in the Philippines to develop literacy approaches and materials that are culturally responsive to the realities and needs of tribal communities.

Katherine’s presentation examined the processes, experiences and thinking behind the development of innovative methods to improve and enrich indigenous literacy approaches with the seven tribal communities of Occidental Mindoro, and the attempt to bring communities to the centre of the learning experience.

Do teachers understand and use interactive teaching: A case of Bangladesh
Dr Adrian Beavis, ACER
from ACER on Vimeo.

This presentation is also available as an audio file.

Dr Adrian Beavis is the Research Director of the Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation research program at ACER. He has a particular interest in the theory of program evaluation and the relationship between evaluation and policy development; the display and communication of information; and the ethical issues between the interaction between intergenerational social mobility, individual mobility, interests and social justice. He has substantial experience in the design of quantitative instruments and analysis of data for the purposes of government policy development. Full bio

Wrap-up brainstorming discussion
from ACER on Vimeo.