Kristen-
Peggy McNamara and I are going to present at this conference, on the role of parents and caregivers in children's literacy development. Barbara Coleman told her that we would receive some financial support from the College.
Rena

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THE LEARNING CONFERENCE 2001
Anargyrios & Korgialenios School of Spetses, Greece, 4-8 July 2001

Dear Colleague,

We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to attend the Eighth
International Literacy and Education Research Network Conference on
Learning, to be held on the island of Spetses in Greece in July 2001.

--- ABOUT THE LEARNING CONFERENCE ---
The Learning Conference is held annually in a different international venue
* Penang, Malaysia in 1999; Melbourne, Australia in 2000; and now on the
Greek island of Spetses in 2001.

The 2001 conference has managed to attract a distinguished line-up of
internationally known keynote speakers, and some two hundred international
paper and workshop presentations from fourteen countries. Learning
Conferences are places where educators from around the world share their
experiences, celebrate new ideas and discover ways to be good learners as
well as good teachers.

Key themes of the 2001 Learning Conference will include learning about and
through new information technologies, cultural diversity in the classroom,
literacy and the today1s *basics1, and new sites and forms of learning. Full
details of the conference are to be found at
http://www.learningconference.com/2001/

--- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - Closes 20 May 2001 ---
For academics and research students, the Learning Conference 2001 presents
an opportunity to present on their work in 30 minute paper or 60 minute
workshop sessions. Presenters include: academics, teachers, educational
managers and higher degree students - from early childhood, to school, to
vocational and higher education, to workplace and lifelong learning. Papers
and workshop presentations will be published in refereed conference
proceedings, available in printed and online editions. To submit a paper or
workshop proposal, visit the online call-for-papers form at
http://www.learningconference.com/2001/callforpapers.html

--- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ---
Some of the world1s leading educators will be speaking at the conference,
including:
* Jim Cummins, Professor of Curriculum and Teaching, Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada.
* James Paul Gee, Tashia Morgridge Chair in Reading, Department of
Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
* Warren Crichlow, Professor of Education, York University, Toronto, Canada.
* Kris Gutierrez, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies,
University of California Los Angeles, California, USA.
* Mary Kalantzis, Dean, Faculty of Education, Language and Community
Services, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
* Gunther Kress, Professor of Education, Institute of Education, University
of London, UK.
* Donaldo Macedo, Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston,
USA.
* Sarah Michaels, Professor of Education, and Richard Sohmer Jacob Hiatt
Center for Urban Education, Clark University, Massachusetts, USA.
* Martin Nakata, Director of the Aboriginal Research Institute, University
of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
* Denise Newfield, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of
Witwatersrand, South Africa.
* Ambigapathy Pandian, Head, English Studies, School of Humanities,
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
* Pippa Stein, Department of Applied English Language Studies, University of
Witwatersrand, South Africa
* Plus, Keynote Speakers from Greece, to be announced.
For further details, visit
http://www.learningconference.com/2001/keynote.html

--- THE CONFERENCE SETTING ---
The 2001 Learning Conference is to be held on the Island of Spetses in
Greece, just two hours by fast ferry from Athens. The setting is the
historic Anargyrios and Korgialenios School of Spetses, the school where
author of *The Magus1, John Fowles taught, and which provided the
inspiration for his novel. The former boarding school closed in the early
1980s, and its buildings have recently been restored and converted into a
conference centre under the Cultural Heritage of Europe program.
Accommodation will be in the numerous small hotels and pensions in the
exquisite town of Spetses, clustered around the wharf and a short walk from
the school - no cars are allowed on the island, with its narrow streets and
historic buildings.
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