Education encompasses a variety of worlds – home, school, university, the workplace and industry – situated within the national and the global communities. The resulting tensions and competing paradigms in these worlds of education provide a rich framework in which to explore and examine strategies necessary for their resolution.

This conference will provide a platform for researchers, practitioners and policy makers to discuss and negotiate how bridging this diversity demonstrates the interdependence of these worlds.

Aim of the Conference

The aim of the conference is to enable participants to share and reflect on issues related to preparing learners for the global challenges of diversity and independence, and to provide educators with an opportunity to network.

Conference sub-themes

1. •Bridging home and school.
   

2. •Connecting school and community.
   

3. •Connecting across subject areas in the school curriculum.
   

4. •Linking the school curriculum and the workplace.
   

5. •Linking standards and the needs of individual learners.
   

6. •Linking educational practice and national development.
   

7. •Linking educational policy and global imperatives.
   

8. •Forging school-university partnerships.
   

9. •Forging university-industry partnerships.
   

10. •Connecting worlds through technology and education.
    

11. •Balancing accountability and innovation in education.