Nelida is a popular educator from Peru with forty years professional experience in human rights and citizenship education, and policy, programmes and advocacy for youth and adults. She lobbies national, regional and local authorities and develops proposals which focus on popular education.
Nelida is Honorary President of the Council of Popular Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (CEAAL) and ex General-Secretary. In 2016/17 she was the coordinator of the Latin American Report to CONFINTEA V1 with the support of UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning (UIL).
She is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Council of Adult Education (ICAE) and a member of the editorial board of the Magazine Piragua (CEAAL Latin America), Journal of Adult Education and Development (DVV International) and the Journal of Education and Culture (Tarea Peru).
Veronica lectures in policy and politics at Te Pūtahi a Toi. A recipient of the Fulbright-Nga Pae o Te Maramatanga scholar award, her fields of research and community work include the Treaty of Waitangi, Māori and youth political engagement, constitutional change, and electoral, civics and citizenship education.
To date, Veronica has co-edited two books, authored several papers and presents widely on these issues. She is a member of Matike Mai Aotearoa, the Independent Working Group on Constitutional Transformation and is completing her PhD on the role of citizenship education in transforming indigenous-coloniser relations.
James Liu is Professor of Psychology at Massey University for a School whose Vision is “to be the defining Applied School of Psychology for Australasia and the South Pacific that makes a difference in individual and collective lives.”
Before working at Massey, James taught at Victoria University of Wellington where he became Professor and Co-Director of its Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research. His research is in cross-cultural, social, and political psychology, with specialisations in history and identity, and the impact of technology on human consciousness. His work traces historical trajectories in the evolution of human societies, with an aim to understand the forces that shape the emergence of global consciousness.
James has many publications and leads coalitions of researchers around the world in three topic areas: Digital Influence (the impact of the internet and mass media on societies and individuals), Social Representations of History, and Social Change and Social Action in the Asia-Pacific. A naturalised citizen of two countries, James calls himself a “Chinese-American-New Zealander”.
During this interactive workshop, Tai will explore easy ways to create photos and videos with the tools you have available. Participants will use their own smartphones or tablet to workshop content ideas, and experiment with putting it all together using free apps on Android and iOS.
Tai is well known to the ACE Sector. His roles have included ACE Aotearoa office and website manager, workshop presenter and social media strategist. He has also supported key events such as the Hui Fono, ACE Conference and Adult Learners' Week. Since returning from overseas in 2016, Tai has managed a wide range of projects. He has a background in education and youth work and a passion for performing arts, social media, and communications.
In this workshop Anne and colleague Dr Nicky Murray will: discuss the importance of digital skills for learning, life and work in the 21st Century; workshop a digital skills framework that describes digital practices in workplace literacy and numeracy programmes; and look for ideas on how to further the work around developing the digital skills of workplace learners.
Anne Alkema is the Skills Highway Research Manager at the Industry Training Federation. She has worked in education as a teacher, public servant, researcher, and evaluator. Her main area of research and evaluation is in adult literacy and numeracy where her focus has been on the economic and social impact of New Zealand government policies and the extent to which these policy settings are working for target groups and industries.
As an adjunct to this work, Anne has helped to develop frameworks of good practice for embedding literacy and numeracy into education and training programmes in tertiary education settings and workplaces. More recently she has provided advice to government on how to build the capability of the foundation teaching sector.