Pod - Foundation Skills

Dr Keiko Yasukawa

Lecturer in the Adult Learning and Applied Linguistics Program
Core Member of STEM Education Futures
University of Technology Sydney

Keiko's main teaching, research and professional engagement has been in adult English language, literacy and numeracy education, and VET, workplace and community education and learning. She is currently the Applied Linguistics and TESOL Program Coordinator in the School of Education at UTS. Through her research, Keiko engages critically with the practices and policies that are operating in adult and vocational education. She disseminates new scholarly research and interpretations of policies to the practitioner community through her teaching and professional engagement and works with VET and adult education practitioners to share theoretical resources and research findings that may enable them to speak more powerfully about their practice, and to imagine and voice their vision about the future of their field to the wider community. During 2015-2016, she was involved in a project funded by the NCVER and supported by UTS and the Australian Council for Adult Literacy to develop the research capabilities of adult language, literacy and numeracy practitioners. She was the 'mentor' of three of the four scholarship holders in this project. She is the lead editor of the journal Literacy and numeracy studies: an international journal in the education and training for adults. She is a co-editor of Beyond economic interests: critical perspectives on adult literacy and numeracy in a globalised world  and Numeracy as social practice: global and local perspectives.

To view Keiko's work and further information please see her institutional profile.

The survey of adult skills
(Source: EduSkills OECD on YouTube, November 2019)