From the Local to the Global: Socialisation into Adult Literacy Practice in the Remote Indigenous Australian Context

The discourse associated with adult literacy provision in remote Aboriginal Australia is now intertwined with the notion of training for employment outcomes. The all too common provision of ad hoc, short-term vocational training courses coupled with a 'bolted-on' (Bradley, Parker, Perisce, & Thatcher, 2000) approach to literacy reflects the shifting policy environment that typically underpins funding in the remote sector.This research was supported by an Australian Research Council DECRA Award (DE120100720). A preliminary version of this paper was presented at the Australian Council for Adult Literacy Annual Conference, University of Technology, Sydney, October 201