There are 116 custodial correctional facilities across Australia with over 40,000 adult prisoners
in custody, 93% being male. In Queensland, there are 11 high-security and 6 low-security
correctional centres all of which are operated by Queensland Corrective Services. Most
prisoners come from disadvantaged backgrounds, and people who spend […]
8 June webinar: Trauma and stress seminar with Linno Rhodes (2)This session is designed for teachers in adult learning environments and will help us understand how trauma and stress can be barriers for successful learning and teaching.
We will explore what it means to feel safe when we teach and learn, and how the simple power of […]
In the field of adult literacy, we continue to argue that our work is about social justice, but what are we doing to teach our learners about the ‘big issues’ facing society and the planet that are often contributing to increasing disadvantage and risks to the most vulnerable groups in Australia and globally? In […]
Leonie is a plain English writing consultant and trainer. A librarian by trade, she has over twenty years’ experience in both state and local government. Leonie’s passion for language, literacy and numeracy resulted in the development of Redland City Council’s first Adult Literacy Tutoring Program.
She currently works with Indigenous rangers in Queensland’s Bunya Mountains, […]
In this Tip, Gavin Mackinney explains how digital technologies were used interactively with literacy students. Specifically, Southbank TAFE ALN 1 class students learned how to access and use Google Docs, with tables that helped them to format short answers to survey questions modelled by Gavin and then made their own survey question topics in […]