The T&T Read­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTRA) and the In­ter­na­tion­al Pro­fes­sion­al Life Skills As­so­ci­a­tion (IPLA) host­ed its first re­search sym­po­sium ear­li­er this month based on the theme In­quiry Shapes In­no­va­tion: Pro­mot­ing a Cul­ture of Re­search in Lit­er­a­cy and Life Skills.

Af­ter the event on April 4, the sym­po­sium's co-or­di­na­tor Ceronne Pre­vatt said in a press re­lease she was pleased to see the in-depth re­search pre­sent­ed by uni­ver­si­ty lec­tur­ers, school­teach­ers, so­cial work­ers, ter­tiary ed­u­ca­tion fa­cil­i­ta­tors and course grad­u­ates who par­tic­i­pat­ed in the sym­po­sium.

Pre­vatt, who is the vice pres­i­dent of the TTRA and the pres­i­dent of the IPLA, gave a pre­sen­ta­tion on the his­tor­i­cal per­spec­tive of life skills in T&T.

Psy­chol­o­gy and man­age­ment stud­ies grad­u­ate of Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies Jesse-Bryan Hack­shaw al­so shared his re­search on gen­der per­cep­tions in the minds of young adults. Al­so present was di­rec­tor of the In­ter­na­tion­al Read­ing As­so­ci­a­tion Dr Rona Flip­po who dis­cussed her re­search in­to the for­ma­tive as­sess­ment of shap­ing lit­er­a­cy in­struc­tion in the class­room.

Pre­sen­ta­tions were al­so giv­en by Stacey Gould of Costaatt, life skills tu­tor Bar­bara Bridge­wa­ter, Ger­ard Si­mon­ette of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go (UTT) and prin­ci­pal of Bish­op Anstey High School East Per­le Brew­ster, among oth­ers. The re­search sym­po­sium end­ed with a mi­ni-work­shop on ac­tion re­search by Lynette Noel of UTT.

There was al­so a lit­er­ary dis­play in­clud­ing books based on the re­search of the or­gan­i­sa­tions' mem­bers. One such book was The Night Nopat Was Left Out by Lynette Noel. An­oth­er, was Life Skills Train­ing which is a text­book and work­book writ­ten by was Pre­vatt and di­rec­tor of Lib­er­a­tion Prac­tice In­ter­na­tion­al Di­anne Hyles.

n For more in­for­ma­tion on the books and on the IPLA, vis­it its Web site: lib­er­a­tione­d­u­ca­tion.com

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