Fine Print Spring 2003 - Contents

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That first interview- literacy assessment, mutual obligation and performativity
by Pauline OMaley
The initial assessment interview gives prospective students the chance to re-engage with education. However, under the current system, this chance could be compromised.

Everything has a place: the ins and outs of context
by Catherine Kell Claiming that simply contextualising our literacy teaching will ensure empowerment can set learners up for failure, or create situations where their existing practices are held up to ridicule. In turn, this could lead to questioning the future of literacy teachings and the role of teachers.

A new point of view, a new person: how writing makes a difference
by Nancy Sugarman
Autobiographical writing offers power to the person holding the pen. Through this self- representation a social identity can be made or remade.

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Practical Matters
Julianne Krusche and Anna Morton have developed a special approach to the CGEA where students can improve their general education skills of literacy and numeracy while developing confidence and social skills.

Open Forum
Online banking is easy, as Cathy Milesi shows ... all you need is some money! And Mary Brodie comes in from Queensland's tropical sun to talk about a program where long-term literacy and numeracy support comes from a community- and culturally-focused program aimed at enlisting the aid of peers.

Foreign Correspondence
In Papua New Guinea, 51.9 percent of the population is considered print-illiterate and English is but one of more than 820 languages. Then there are the other challenges to spreading literacy, as Glenys Waters and Audrey Grant explain.

Beside the Whiteboard
Michael Chalk talks to Jo Camilleri about her work at Kimberley TAFE in Broome, where she and colleague Richard Agar began a team-teaching scheme through the CAVSS-Course in Applied Vocational Study Skills-program.