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Biography

Recent Positions:         

• Director, Global Learning Services

 

Areas and Length of Expertise:

• Policy and strategies to foster lifelong learning
• Building learning communities and regions

 

Recent research, development and consultancy and organisations

1. 2005 Adult Learning Australia: Report on future directions for lifelong learning in Australia (Achieving Australia as an Inclusive Learning Society)
2. 2006 Adult Learning Australia, Equity in Adult Learning.
3. Study of matching VET provision to regional development skill needs/
4. e-learning for mature age workers

 

 

Qualifications, Recognitions, Positions, Memberships

           

• Visiting Research Fellow Adult Learning Australia,
• Member of Hume Global Learning Village Advisory Board
• Awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2006 for service to education

 

Selected Publication

• Kearns P, Bowman K & Garlick S, The Double Helix of VET & Regional Development, NCVER, Adelaide (forthcoming)
• What are the Limits of ICT & Media in the Delivery of VET, in UNESCO International Handbook of Vocational Education & Training, UNEVOC, Bonn (forthcoming)
• Equity in Adult Learning , Adult Learning Australia, Canberra (2006)
• Achieving Australia as an Inclusive Learning Society, Adult Learning Australia, Canberra (2005)
• VET in the 21^st Century Global Knowledge Society, ANTA, Brisbane (2004)
• Towards the Connected Learning Society : An International Overview of Trends in Policy for Information and Communication Technology in Education, DEST, Canberra (2002)
• Are Two Worlds Colliding ? The Provision of Training and Learning Services for Small Business, NCVER, Adelaide (2002)
• Kearns P, McDonald R, Candy, P, Knights S, VET in th Learning Age, NCVER, Adelaide (1999)
• Kearns P & Schofield K, Learning Across Frontiers : A Report on the Internationalisation of Staff Development in VET, ANTA, Melbourne (1997)
• Kearns P & Hall W (ed), Kangan : Twenty Years On, NCVER, Adelaide

History

Member for

2 years 26 weeks