March 2002

ISSN 1537-5080

Vol. 16 : No. 3< >

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STATE AND INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE

International Conference on Technical and Vocational Education and Training

Canadian Vocational Association and UNEVOC-Canada.

DEVELOPING SKILLS FOR THE NEW ECONOMY

October 17-19, 2002, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

The Canadian Vocational Association and UNEVOC-Canada will co-host an International Conference on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Winnipeg, tentatively set for October 17-19, 2002. The conference will focus on DEVELOPING SKILLS FOR THE NEW ECONOMY.

Call for Papers and Workshop Presentations

Our society is continuously moving towards a knowledge-based economy: an economy in which the application of knowledge replaces capital, raw materials, and labor as the main means of production. The synergy of combining new information and communication technologies with human skills has dramatically altered job content and skills requirements at the workplace. Good jobs have become technologically complex and are demanding sophisticated work skills. Simple, routine and low-level functions are diminishing. The perception of the role of human interventions in the economic transactions has also changed. The potential contribution that an individual can make in acquiring and applying knowledge for improving processes, products and services is becoming more important than the physical labor. The knowledge embodied in a product has become a key element of production.

To engage all key stakeholders in a discussion regarding skill development for the New Economy, the Canadian Vocational Association (CVA) and UNEVOC-Canada, the Canadian Centre for UNESCO's International Project on Technical and Vocational Education will co-host an international conference, DEVELOPING SKILLS FOR THE NEW ECONOMY on October 17-19, 2002 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Themes

Access and Equity	Adult Education
Apprenticeships	Articulation and Linkages
E-Learning	Human Performance Technology
Indigenous People	Knowledge Management
Learning Partnerships	Skills Gaps
Sustainable Development	Teacher Education

In order to provide a forum for both theory and practice in Technical and Vocational Education and Training, this conference will allow for both paper and workshop presentations. Paper presentations will focus on research, policy initiatives and case studies. Workshop presentations will highlight best practices, exemplary accomplishments and programs, innovative approaches, strategies and emerging trends in technical and vocational education and training.

Paper Presentations

We are accepting abstracts for oral and symposium presentations dealing with research, policy initiatives and case studies in technical and vocational education and training.

ORAL presentations will be forty minutes in length in a one-hour time slot to allow for presenter-audience interaction.

SYMPOSIUM presentations will consist of groups of four papers on a consistent theme that will be presented in a two-hour time slot.

Abstract Requirements

Abstracts should be no more than 150 words. All submissions will be acknowledged with an email upon receipt. All abstracts must be received by February 28, 2002.

Abstract Submission

You may submit an abstract via one of the following methods:

Web: Complete the online Proposal Cover Sheet Form-WEB http://www.umanitoba.ca/unevoc/2002conference/papers/form.html. Do not forget to paste your abstract on the text box at the bottom of the form.
Email: OPTION 2a: Download the Proposal Cover Sheet Form-WORD http://www.umanitoba.ca/unevoc/2002conference/papers/form.doc. Complete, save, and email the form as an MS Word attachment to unevoc2@ms.umanitoba.ca; or
OPTION 2b: Copy and paste the text in Proposal Cover Sheet Form-TXT http://www.umanitoba.ca/unevoc/2002conference/papers/form.txt in the body of your email message. Complete and email the form to unevoc2@ms.umanitoba.ca. Please indicate 2002 Conference Abstract (Paper) on the subject line.
Conference organizers will notify all prospective presenters regarding the status of their abstracts by March 15, 2002.

Contact Information

Dr. Chris Chinien, Director, UNEVOC-Canada
Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2 Canada

Phone: (204) 474-8271 Fax: (204) 474-7696

Email: chinien@ms.umanitoba.ca

Workshop Presentations

We are accepting abstracts for workshop presentations dealing with best practices, exemplary accomplishments and programs, innovative approaches, strategies and emerging trends in technical and vocational education and training. The suggested workshop presentation duration is fifty minutes long in a one-hour time slot to allow for presenter-audience interaction.