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The AVETRA 2009 Conference was the 12th
Annual Conference run by the Australian Vocational Education Training
and Research Association.
It was held from Thursday, 15 – Friday, 17
April 2009 at the Crowne Plaza Coogee Beach in Sydney, with
pre-conference workshops on Wednesday, 15 April 2009 at the TAFE NSW
Sydney Institute, Randwick.
The 2-day conference has welcomed 174 delegates, 3 keynote
presentations, 2 plenary sessions and 67 papers (31 refereed and 36 non
refereed papers).
Four pre-conference workshops were presented
and were attended by 47 delegates.
For information about the 2009 Conference, its program, sponsors etc,
or to view the PowerPoint presentations and papers presented during the
conference, please click here.
AVETRA
13th Annual Conference
2010
Annual Meeting and Conference (Gold Coast)
Wednesday,
7 – Friday 9 April 2010
VET
Research: Leading and Responding in Turbulent Times
Vocational education and training, of any
Australian educational sector, is perhaps most subject to change,
transformations and turbulence because it is often held to be the most
instrumental of these sectors. Indeed, because of direct accountability
to government and a close interface with industry it is often seen as
being a sector that is most responsive to emerging national social and
economic issues. Consequently, in periods of economic and social
turbulence that characterise contemporary times, vocational education
is positioned by others to provide responses to or secure stability
within short timeframes.
More than being merely reactive to
governmental, community and economic edicts, the vocational education
and training sector as a field of practice and research can and should
play a more pro-active role in shaping not only its responses to how
issues such as skills shortages, oversupply, low completion rates, the
needs of workers over 45 years etc are to be conceptualised and
addressed. The organised provision of vocational education and training
outdates mass schooling and higher education, and has reservoirs of
traditions of practice that are drawn from a deep understanding of the
nature and the interface of work and learning. There is a growing body
of published research and maturing base of researchers in state and
federal agencies, TAFE colleges, private registered training
organisations, universities and consultancies that can play active
roles in identifying and conceptualising issues within the broad field
of vocational education and formulate advice and approaches to be
incorporated in policy and practice. Nowhere is this base of expertise
more concentrated than in Australia, particularly through the AVETRA
networks.
Consequently, this conference will
demonstrate the capacities and leadership of VET practitioners and
researchers through exercising their expertise on existing and emerging
issues, reshaping those issues and using scholarly, practice and
practical inquiry to make helpful contributions to policy and practice.
The plenary, symposia and themed contributions will address current
issues within the provision of vocational education and training and
present research accounts which these issues can be understood, and/or
responses in the form of suggestions for policy and practice.
The
meeting and conference will comprise a three day program,
of pre-conference workshops, plenary sessions, symposia and forums for
individual papers in themed sessions.
Plenary
presenters will be announced by June 2009, and will
include international presenter(s).
Call
for papers will be announced in June 2009, with submission
dates closing early September 2009, and decisions for inclusion made by
the end of October 2009.
The
conference venue will be at a hotel at the Gold Coast that
will be announced in June 2009.
A
local Organising Committee has been formed comprising
membership from state government lead agencies, vocational education
and training institutions, and metropolitan and non-metropolitan
universities.
For
further enquiries, please contact either of the
co-convenors Professor Stephen Billett (s.billett@griffith.edu.au) or
Dr Sarojni Choy (s.choy@qut.edu.au).
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