Call for Abstracts
PINZ’s sister agency is the Industry Training
Federation (ITF), which is a consortium of NZ’s 39 industry training
organisations. The
Industry Training Federation is pleased to open its call for abstracts for the
New Zealand Vocational Education and Training Research Forum 2009. Th
e
Research Forum will be held on 22-23 April 2009, at Rutherford House, Victoria
University, Wellington, New Zealand. The ITF is accepting abstracts on a
wide variety of skills, workplace, professional, and vocational
education-related topics including (but not limited to):
- Specific
topics in vocational, professional, and workplace-based education and
training.
- Learners,
learning, and pedagogy in vocational, professional, and workplace
education
- Skill
utilisation.
- Dimensions
of skill demand (including labour market analysis).
- Education
and training policy.
- Outcomes,
experiences, and perceptions of vocational, professional, and
workplace-based education and training amongst learners, workers, firms,
industries, and society.
- Approaches
to conducting research, including relevant methodologies, tools, and data
sources.
- International
approaches to and experiences of the above, including comparative work.
The ITF welcomes abstracts from specialist
researchers and analysts, central and local government officials, and practitioners
in the field, and also welcomes reports on work in progress or that is
currently being planned. Please feel free to circulate the attached flyer and
abstract submission form to those of your colleagues who may be interested in
submitting an abstract.
The flyer provides details on how to submit an abstract for consideration. A
Word version of the abstract submission forum is available on the ITF’s website
(http://www.itf.org.nz/research-forum-2009.html)
if you wish to submit your application electronically.
Registrations for the Research Forum will open in late January 2009.
If you have any questions about the abstract submission process or the Research
Forum, please contact Nicholas Huntington via email at nicholas@itf.org.nz,
or phone on +64 4 499 8157.
