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The 2018 NSWALNC Conference will be held on Friday 7 December. Put it in your diary. Registrations will open in August.

       The Council has had feedback from several members that they are finding it increasingly difficult to stay current with, and access scholarly research that could inform our practice. This year, we plan to host at least two seminars where colleagues in the field can read and discuss some recent research publications together. A member of the Council Committee will lead the discussion.        Our first such seminar will focus on a 2016 paper written by the Erik Jacobson, an ABE researcher in the USA:  ‘Workforce Development Rhetoric and the Realities of 21st Century Capitalism’ . In his paper, Jacobson calls upon those in the field of adult basic education to question some of the premises upon which many adult literacy and numeracy programs, particularly for long-term unemployed people, are based. He then argues that ‘students and teachers in adult education should focus on developing structural analyses of the situation [where large numb...