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AVETRA Conference 2015 – Provisional Program
DAY 1 – WEDNESDAY 8 APRIL 2015
1600 – 1900
Registration Desk Open
0900 – 1200
AVETRA Executive Meeting
1200 – 1700
WAVE Conference:​
Leaders, teachers, learners, leavers: Women in the Australian VET market
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Victoria University
1730 - 1900
Welcome Reception
The Rendezvous Grand Hotel
DAY 2 – THURSDAY 9 APRIL 2015
0730 – 0830
Registration Desk Open – arrival tea and coffee
0830 – 1000
Plenary Session 1
0830 - 0840
0840 - 0900
0900 - 1000
Welcome to Country
Conference Opening
Keynote Address: Neo-liberalism and VET into the abyss
Professor James Avis, University of Huddersfield, UK
Morning Tea and Trade Display
Apprenticeships and
Partnering with industry to
Traineeships
deliver VET
1000 – 1030
1030 – 1245
1030 – 1100
1100 – 1105
1105 – 1135
1135 – 1140
1140 – 1210
1210 - 1215
1215 – 1245
Expanding apprentice
responsibility in the assessment
process: the competency
progression challenge
ROOM CHANGE
Enterprise RTOs in Australia: An
overview from research data
Different forms of assessment in
Swedish apprenticeship
education
Learning & Development for
Freelancers in Singapore’s
Creative Industries – the
Problem of Two Markets
Assessment, Teaching and
Learning
CONCURRENT 1
Engaging the Digital Learner
Marketplace - Supporting
Innovation in VET with #ILeP
CONCURRENT 2
Positioning tertiary students as
interdependent learners
Learner Experiences
Policy Development in the VET
Sector
Workers informing the CET
market!
Funding, participation and
quality in VET
Challenging educator expertise:
Curriculum work in Neoliberal
VET
Sustaining the national training
system: the implications of
student entitlement funding
approaches
CALD OTEN Student Cohorts
and Completions
Don’t blame Dawkins, Kangan
laid the foundation for VET
markets
ROOM CHANGE
The development of skills for
sustainability for Australian
apprentices and trainees during
the UN Decade of Education for
Sustainable Development
ROOM CHANGE
Meeting client demand for
health service providers: a
service design approach
CONCURRENT 3
From Fleming to Productivity
Commission: Is the market
forcing VET teacher quality to
walk the tightrope?
CONCURRENT 4
1245 – 1330
1330 – 1400
1400 – 1405
1405 – 1500
1500 – 1530
1530 – 1630
Practice focused learning: A
study of apprenticeship and
pre-apprenticeship work-based
learning in a New Zealand
context
Lunch and Trade Display
Work based Learning: A flux for
learners through the Australian
Qualifications Framework.
Operational Compliance within
New Zealand Automotive
Workshops
Publication in VET: Expectations
of editorial process and
governance
Paper 1: Technical Schooling: an Historical Perspective
1715 – 1830
CONCURRENT 5
Facilitating knowledge transfer
in the workplace
Uncovering an evolving TAFE
NSW Higher Education
pedagogical practice
What would Kangan think of us
now? The fate of the ‘E’ in VET
Negotiating ‘funny numbers’:
numeracy practices of the
neoliberal workplace
Staying the Course: Factors
Affecting Retention and
Completion in the VET
Classroom
ROOM CHANGE
Keynote address - TBA
Afternoon Tea and Trade Display
Vocational learning in Schools: past, present and
future
1630 - 1635
1635 – 1705
From competency to graduate
profiles: New Zealand’s shift
towards a relational approach
SYMPOSIA 1
The Strategic, Operational and Academic issues presented
for the establishment of a Comprehensive CQUniversity,
Australia within the context of TAFE Reform in Queensland
and the transition to a contestable funding market
Paper 1: The Strategic
The VET Educator as researcher
Paper 1: Why research and inquiry are important for
VET educators
Paper 2: Preparing young people for occupations:
current policy trends in VET in Schools
Paper 2: The Operational
Paper 2: T The Tipping Point?
Paper 3: Innovative partnerships for VET in Schools - the
impact of business partners
Paper 3: The Academic
Paper 3: If only I had the time...! VET educators’
engagement in research
Discussion and Questions
ROOM CHANGE
Apprenticeships and
Traineeships
Discussion and Questions
Discussion and Questions
Partnering with industry to
deliver VET
Metal engineering trades in
Victoria: the practitioner
perspectives
Industry led workforce planning
and training delivery in an
emerging sector
AVETRA AGM
Assessment, Teaching and
Learning
CONCURRENT 6
Supporting the Learning of
Sessional VET Teachers: What
works?’
Learner Experiences
Policy Development in the VET
Sector
Making tracks and visioning
journeys: Understanding further
education pathways among
remote and very remote
Indigenous communities of the
Northern Territory
Public, private or a hardy new
mongrel?
DAY 3 – FRIDAY 10 APRIL 2015
0800 – 0830
Registration Desk Open – arrival tea and coffee
0830 – 1020
Plenary Session 2
0830 - 0920
Conference awards
0920 - 1020
Keynote Address: How can we ask new questions about VET and social justice? Reflections on marketization, global transitions, and educational work in contexts of uncertainty
Professor Terri Seddon, Australian Catholic University
ROOM CHANGE
Apprenticeships and
Partnering with industry to
Assessment, Teaching and
Learner Experiences
Policy Development in the VET
Traineeships
deliver VET
Learning
Sector
CONCURRENT 7
Women in the auto trades:
Developing high quality VET
Putting it into practice: Remote
Blurring boundaries or
Quality: a contested concept in
Views from employers,
researchers
Aboriginal Education
heightening tensions between
vocational education and
tradeswomen and apprentices
Paraprofessional training moves
VET and university pedagogies
training
into a new space: the Advanced
in widening participation to
Diploma of Education
high-level qualifications
Morning Tea and Trade Display
Session TBA
CONCURRENT 8
1130 – 1200
Multiple Pathways to Improved Futures
1130 - 1200
The Evolution of School-Based
Through Cross-Sector Activity
Vocational Education and
Training
in Australia - A Historical Review
and Evaluation
1020 – 1030
1030 - 1100
1100 – 1130
1130 – 1300
1300 – 1345
Lunch
1345 – 1415
Learn Local
Learn Local: What
do we know and
what research do
we need?
Session TBA
1200 – 1205
ROOM CHANGE
1200 – 1205
ROOM CHANGE
1205 – 1235
An exploration of vocational pedagogy:
types of knowledge used for teaching
1205 – 1235
Shedding Light on Private RTO
provision of VET to early school
leavers
Speed Presentation
Assessment, Teaching and
Learning
Considering context in
purposeful workforce
planning
Lived experience or practice
framework: The implementation
of Batchelor Institute’s
Both-Ways Learning and
Teaching Framework as a
contested space
Moderation practices
in non-university
settings: an
international
comparative analysis
Role of VET
Researchers in
reforming
international VET
Learner Experiences
CONCURRENT 9
Towards a comprehensive
account of adult learning and
development
Policy Development in the VET
Sector
Markets and myths: critiquing
the narrative of
participation-based VET and its
implications for equity
policy and practice
within aid and
development
programs
1415 – 1420
1420 – 1450
1450 – 1455
1455 – 1600
ROOM CHANGE
Learn Local (cont’d)
Learn Local: What
Trainee feedback:
do we know and
How we learn from
what research do
our trainees
we need?
ROOM CHANGE
Panel Discussion and Conference Closing
Chair: Hugh Guthrie
Partnering with
industry to deliver
VET
Mapping VET Sector
Capacity for
Australia’s Gas
Industry
Assessment, Teaching and
Learning
Policy Development in the VET
Sector
CONCURRENT 10
Enhancing VET quality. The risk
of dumbing down the
complexities of VET teaching
and learning. The Swedish case
The training and employment
challenge of remote
communities: Is collaboration
the solution?