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ALM8 Provisional Programme

(last update Dec 10, 2001)

Theme of the conference:

Numeracy for Empowerment and Democracy?

The idea of lifelong learning was introduced by UNESCO in the late 1960s and re-appeared in a different context and a different form in the late 1980s. In the meantime lifelong learning as a guiding principle for re-struc­turing education had changed from a utopian idea (democracy or access to democracy) to an economic imperative.

During the last 20 years, numeracy (or mathematical/quantitative literacy) has been a key word in policy reports, international surveys, adult educational programmes and research on adult and mathematics education. Adult numeracy is a complex and much debated area of practice and research. In adult education, two different lines of approach are possible: society's requirements of numeracy or adults' need for numeracy.

We try to bridge these two approaches of the concept by describing numeracy as a math-containing competence that, in principle, is needed by everybody in society. Thus, the following statements are possible:

- Numeracy changes with time and place with respect to the development of society and technology.
- Numeracy has both a social, a cognitive and an affective aspect.
- Numeracy is a basic competence in working life, vocational and professional education, and academic studies.

Why; how; and what adult numeracy? Could numeracy also be a possible answer to a question of empowerment and democracy in the broadest sense of these terms?

Provisional Programme  

Day 1  - Thursday June 28th 
  9.00 - 10.00 Registration
10.00 - 10.30
Welcoming Addresses
Tine Wedege -  Conference Chair, Roskilde University, Denmark
John O’Donoghue -   ALM President, University of Limerick, Ireland
Morten Blomhøj -  Co-director Centre for Research in Learning Mathematics, Roskilde University, DK
10.30 - 11.30
Opening Plenary Lecture
Lifelong Learning – a Political Agenda! Also a Research Agenda?
Henning Salling Olesen
Roskilde University, Denmark
11.30 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.30 Parallel Sessions #1
14.30 - 15.00 Coffee Break
15.00 - 16.30 Topic Groups #1
16.30 - 17.30 Parallel Session #2 
17.30 - 19.00 Buffet
19.00 - 21.00 AGM

 

Day 2 - Friday June 29th
  9.30 - 10.30
Plenary Lecture
 What Counts as Mathematics in Adult and Vocational Education?
Gail E. FitzSimons
Monash University, Australia
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.00 Parallel Sessions #3
12.00 -13.30 Lunch
12.30 - 15.00 Parallel Sessions #4
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee Break
15.30 - 16.30 Parallel Sessions #5
      
19.00 Conference Dinner in Copenhagen

 

Day 3 - Saturday June 30th
  9.30 - 10.30
Plenary lecture

(Dis)empowering Forces in Everyday Mathematics. Challenges to Democracy.
Lena Lindenskov & Paola Valero
Danish University of Education, Denmark
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.30 Topic Groups #2
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15.00 Plenary Panel
Perspectives on Research on Adults Learning Mathematics
Diana Coben (UK), John O’Donoghue (Ireland),
Jürgen Maasz (Austria) & Tine Wedege (Chair, Denmark)

Parallel Sessions. To read the abstracts, click on the links.

Day 1 Thursday June 28th
13.00 - 14.30 Sessions (1)

Diana Coben (UK) Numeracy in the New Adult Basic Skills Strategy in England

David Kaye (UK) & Eigil P.Hansen (DK) Practitioners, Questions, and Research

 

Alison Tomlin (UK)  ‘Real life’ in everyday and academic maths

Anne Abbott (NZ) Maths and Measurement: Developing measurement skills in adult learners of mathematics

Lene Østergaard Johansen (DK) Goals of Numeracy Teaching

Wolfgang Schlöglmann (AT) Mathematics and Society – Must all People learn Mathematics?

WO WO PP PP
15.00 - 16.30 Topic Groups (1)

A: Developing a Theoretical Framework for Adults Learing Mathematics: The case of Numeracy Roseanne Benn (UK) & Tine Wedege (DK)

Mark Schwartz (USA) Numeracy is Empowerment

B: Mathematics Education for the Workplace    

Lisbeth Lindberg (SE)

Jaine Caunt Chisholm (UK) Mathematics education for the workplace.

Henk van der Kooij (NL) Mathematical Literacy What’s in the name?

C: Affective Factors in Adult Mathematics Learning  

Jeff Evans (UK)

Patricia Alexander & Poppy Pickard (UK) Breaking the Barrier – Student perception on how the necessary maths support has facilitated entry into higher education

Alan Bowd & Patrick Brady (CA)   Mathematics anxiety and perceived competency to teach among student teachers

Beth Marr (AU) Towards a Holistic Model of Numeracy Competence

To be continued Saturday 30th
16.30 – 17.30 Sessions (2) Milton Fuller (AU): Mathematics – The STEPS for empowerment in a University Foundation Program Dhamma Colwell (UK) The new English Adult Numeracy Core Curriculum - a critique Richard Angiama (UK): Teaching adult students numeracy and mathematics

PP PP Posters and Exhibition
            

Day 2 Friday June 29th
11.00-12.00 Sessions (3)

 

 

 Jeff Evans (UK) Developing the Ideas of Affect and Emotion among Adult Learners

 

 Betty Johnston (AU)   Does Value Count?

 

 

 Donald Smith (AU) Maths teaching for the prevention and reduction of problem gambling

 

 Terry Maguire & John O'Donoghue (IE)  A grounded approach to tuotur training in Ireland - some findings from a national survey of tutors in Adult Basic Education
PP PP PP PP
13.30 - 15.00 Sessions (4)

Laura Carroll & Sarah Kowal (USA)   Multimedia Maths – Multiplying Opportunities for formal and Informal Numeracy Learning

Inge Henningsen (DK) Gender in ALM – Women and Men learning Mathematics

Harrie Sormani & Ben Hermeler (NL)  Competence based math in modules

Noel Coleran, John O’Donoghue & Eamonn Murphy (IE)    Evaluating an educational programme for enhancing adults’ quantitative problem-solving and decision-making

Valerie Seabright (UK) Basic Skills Strategy - a practitioner perspective
WO WO WO PP
15.30 - 16.30 Sessions (5)

Janet Duffin (UK) Personal mental methods as a means of achieving empowerment in democracy

Roseanne Benn (UK) Secret knowledge – Indigenous Australians and learning mathematics

Marta Civil (USA) Mathematics for Parents: Issues of Pedagogy and Content

Katherine Safford (USA) Adult Ways of Knowing: A summery of Perspectives from Five Research Groups

WO PP PP PP
            

Day 3 Saturday June 30th
11.00 - 12.30 Topic Groups (2)

A: Developing a Theoretical Framework for Adults Learing Mathematics: The case of Numeracy  

Tine Wedege (DK) & Roseanne Benn (UK)

B: Mathematics Education for the Workplace.

Lisbeth Lindberg (SE)

C: Affective Factors in Adult Mathematics Learning.

Jeff Evans (UK)

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