Dear Colleagues,
Please find below details of postgraduate distance/blended learning
courses/modules beginning at Lancaster in April 08
Please could we ask you to circulate this information. Many thanks
Distance Learning Postgraduate Courses/Qualifications in Adult Literacy,
Numeracy and ESOL
<http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/edres/study/alne/index.htm>
* Are you are a Workplace or ESOL Practitioner, Manager or Teacher
Trainer?
* Thinking of moving your career towards Management, Research, or
Teacher Training?
Our courses are designed to build on your initial training
qualifications and to enable you to explore the relationships between
practice, theory and research. Each 10 week course can stand alone or
assembled to lead to a variety of postgraduate qualifications in
addition they count towards your 30 hours of required CPD.
Courses starting 18th 19th April 2008 (for details please follow the
links below)
Debates in ESOL Teaching and Research
<http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/edres/study/alne/modules/abe05.htm>
Tutor Kathy Pitt <http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/160/>
This course introduces Adult Basic Education professionals to basic
concepts of action research and evaluation within the ESOL area. It
offers practical strategies for formulating research problems, designing
empirical investigations in their working context and hands-on
experience of designing and carrying out one such investigation.
Workplace Basic Skills Policy and Practice
<http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/edres/study/alne/modules/abe01.htm>
Tutor Sondra Cuban <http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/edres/profiles/209/>
This course explores current government, industry and education
responses to workers' basic skills development and identifies their
strengths and limitations. It incorporates marginalised groups,
including migrant workers, older workers, and women. It compares UK
models of workplace basic skills to a model in at least one other
industrialised country. It critically evaluates dominant and alternative
theories in the practice of workplace basic skills and develops
participants' abilities to use reflective practice to contribute to
workplace basic skills theory.
Full Information
<http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/edres/study/alne/index.htm>
Please contact us for application and course information, or if you have
a question about your CPD route. We deal with many queries about
professional development issues by phone, and e-mail and we are able to
keep in close touch with developments around the country. We are always
happy to share information and news of events.
Regards
Kathryn James
MA in Adult Literacy, Numeracy and ESOL Co-ordinator
(Part-time Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday only)
Educational Research
County South
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YD
Tel: 01524 510 828
Fax: 01524 510 855
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Website: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/edres/study/alne/index.htm
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