The meeting had to be postponed. New date in 2021.

Anniversary Conference - 10 Years of leseforum.ch

Friday, August 27, 2021, HEP Vaud, Lausanne

Program
Call for posters (Registration closed)
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Venue
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Conference topic issue

Literacy – Potential for Science and Practice

The online platform leseforum.ch aims to support the research and promotion of literacy and to link science and practice across language barriers. Since March of 2010, 33 issues with hundreds of contributions from research and practice have been published. The platform has established itself as a digital journal far beyond the borders of the country.

At our anniversary conference, we want to take up and continue the discussions revolving around the concept of literacy, which have been held on leseforum.ch for the past ten years:

What role does literature play nowadays in the German-, French- and Italian-speaking research communities?
What significance does the concept of literacy have for the practice of promoting reading, writing and media skills - in school and extracurricular contexts?
What innovative forms of literacy promotion have emerged since 2010, and in what directions should the practice of literacy promotion develop?

These are some of the questions to be addressed at the conference.

The event is aimed at researchers and mediators who are involved in research and/or promotion of literacy in schools, families, day-care centers, libraries, etc., but also at all other stakeholders from culture and education and other interested parties.

Program

8.30	Arrival Welcome coffee
9.00	Opening plenum Welcome Introduction to the conference topic Introduction to the poster session
10.00	Break / poster exhibition
10.30	Short presentations Development of the platform Focus 1: Literacy and orality Focus 2: Literacy and specialized lessons Focus 3: Literacy and digital media Panel discussion with experts on literacy Comments on the focus topics Different concepts of literacy in discussion
12.30	Lunch break / poster exhibition
13.30	Poster session Questions and exchange
14.00	Ateliers, Round 1 Insights into projects and practice A1 Literacy in early childhood (0-4 years) A2 Literacy and plurilinguism at school A3 Libraries and digital literacy A4 Literacy and multimodality A5 Adult literacy and basic skills
15.15	Break / poster exhibition
15.45	Ateliers, Round 2 Insights into projects and practice A1 Literalität in der frühen Kindheit (0–4 Jahre) A2 Literalität und Plurilinguismus in der Schule A3 Bibliotheken und digitale Literalität A4 Literalität und Multimodalität A5 Literalität und Grundkompetenzen von Erwachsenen
17.00	Closing assembly Visual commentary Review and thanks
17.15	End of the conference

The detailed conference program will be available here from March 31, 2021 onwards.

Registration

Registration for the conference via ConfTool of HEP Vaud will be possible from April 1, 2021 onwards.

Venue

Haut école pédagogique HEP Vaud (University of Teacher Education)
Avenue de cour 33
CH–1014 Lausanne
Switzerland

Arrival

Access and map of the HEP Vaud campus in Lausanne

Contact

Thomas Sommer
Office of the Swiss Literacy Forum
c/o Swiss Institute of Children's and Youth Media SIKJM
Georgengasse 6, 8006 Zurich
thomas.sommer@leseforum.ch

Conference topic issue (to be published in early July 2020)

The number 2/2020 of leseforum.ch takes up the topic in the run-up to the conference and publishes more than 10 contributions under the title "Literacy - Potentials for Science and Practice". These current articles will also be discussed at the conference itself and will be related to the retrospective of the contributions of the past 10 years. Number 2/2020 will be published at the beginning of July 2020.

Read more about the concept behind this anniversary issue here (in German, French or Italian).
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