Thursday May 7th 2009
6.00 – 7.30 pm
William Angliss Conference Centre
Level 5, Corner La Trobe and King St
Melbourne
RSVP info@valbec.org.au
or phone (03) 9546 6892
by APRIL 28TH 2009
Copies of the book will be available
to purchase at the launch.
Rosie Wickert will launch Reading the Fine Print: A history of the Victorian Adult Literacy and Basic Education Council (VALBEC) 1978 – 2008 by Beverley Campbell. This significant publication is an engaging and comprehensive account of thirty years in the life of this professional organization. It recounts some of the policy and pedagogical struggles of the adult literacy field that have shaped VALBEC’s identity. Reading the Fine Print also explores how VALBEC’s journal, Fine Print, acted as a trend-setter in its choice of articles for publication, and as a mirror by reflecting some of the major themes of adult literacy education in Victoria in the last thirty years.
Beverley Campbell has been involved in education for thirty-five years, twenty-five of those in adult literacy education. In that time she has held positions in secondary schools, community education programs, and as project worker and lecturer in adult literacy education at La Trobe University, Victoria University and University of Melbourne. She is a past president of VALBEC (1989-91) and a former member of the Adult Community and Further Education Board of Victoria.
Rosie Wickert is widely known for her work in adult education and most notably her publications Australian Policy Activism in Language and Literacy (2001) co-edited with Professor Joseph Lo Bianco and No Single Measure (1995), the report of the first national survey of adult literacy in Australia. Rosie is currently Head of Coffs Harbour Campus, Southern Cross University, after many years in leadership roles at University of Technology, Sydney. Rosie has wide experience as a policy adviser to state and federal government and has represented the Australian Government at UNESCO and OECD Expert meetings. She was Chair of the Australian Literacy Federation, and has been President of the Australian Council for Adult Literacy and the NSW Council for Adult Literacy and Numeracy.
