Anticipating future storylines: Considering possible directions in Australian literacy education.

This article is a written version of the closing plenary at the 2014 AATE/ALEA conference, aNTicipating New Territories, in Darwin in July 2014. It begins by highlighting several major interrelated themes from the conference keynotes, papers and workshops that I attended. Each of these themes resonated strongly with me during the conference. Two potential and competing storylines and the potential direction each could take Australian literacy education are then sketched. The first storyline envisages a continued technical and highly prescriptive approach to literacy. The second advocates a more creative approach to literacy pedagogy and briefly describes two contemporary programs that embody this. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]