Prior Learning International Research Centre (PLIRC)

Roslyn Cameron, Southern Cross University

Abstract

PLIRC will provide an international forum for networking amongst scholars of PLAR and will actively promote dissemination of research findings to practitioners and policy makers alike. The new Prior Learning International Research Centre (PLIRC) is fortunate to have attracted nine energetic scholars, all internationally known for their research on Prior Learning, to serve as the inaugural Board of Directors. With the initiative to develop an international research agenda, the scholars attending PLIRC’s inaugural meeting made presentations on the state of prior learning research in their own countries/regions and/or their own personal research in the area. As its first research initiative, the PLIRC board members agreed to assemble these presentations in the form of a monograph, with Mignonne Breier and Judy Harris acting as editors. The intention is to publish the monograph in 2010.