Bridging Worlds: Making Connections in Education

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 to 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 provide an opportunity for networking by educators; and to enable them to share and reflect on issues related to preparing learners for the global challenges of diversity and interdependence.

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.