The conference will take place from 9-11 November 2023 in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Please see our previous posting and find a Draft Programme attached.
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Thursday, 8 June, 2023
The conference will take place from 9-11 November 2023 in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Please see our previous posting and find a Draft Programme attached.
Due to extended migration, especially since 2015, Greek society is facing new challenges arising from the different social and educational needs of heterogeneous groups with migration or refugee experiences. In this presentation, Dr Kitsiou will focus on (second) language teaching as a critical and creative way that can provide opportunities for intercultural dialogue, linguistic justice, socialisation, empowerment and subjective well-being for all stakeholders involved.
One should applaud the University of Malta UNESCO Chair on Global Adult Education and the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) that they took up the initiative to bring CONVERGENCE - AN INTERNATIONAL ADULT EDUCATION JOURNAL back to life in 2022. It had been published ever since the late 1960s, and stopped for about a decade.
The Adam Smith 300 Academic Workshops, to be held on 8 June 2023 within the Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow G11 6EW, are part of a week-long series of activities to commemorate the tercentenary of alumnus Adam Smith being organised by the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow with the support of the Templeton Foundation. Details of how to register are found on the website.
CR&DALL was very pleased to be able to support the 7th GLOBAL FORUM FOR ATLVs on Health Education for All, held in Alexandria and online from March 7-9, 2023. It was represented by Yulia Nesterova, whose presentation was entitled The importance of learning cities and whole-community approach to supporting chronically ill people and their families.
We are very pleased to announce that publication of a new book, Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development, co-edited by CR&DALL core member, Sinead Gormally. It was launched on 12 December 2022 in Belfast at an event hosted by the Social Change Initiative.
We are very pleased to announce that Nematollah Azizi from the University of Kurdistan, Iran, has been appointed as Leverhulme Visiting Professor within the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, hosted within CR&DALL. We are most grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for funding this position from January 2023 for 12 months, and very much look forward to Nematollah's stay with us. He was previously a collaborator in our British Academy, Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF)- funded project, Strengthening Urban Engagement of Universities in Asia and Africa (SUEUAA).
The UNESCO Chair on Global Adult Education of the University of Malta has just concluded a seminar on this important anniversary. It was a half-day celebratory event with a variety of presentations and discussions.
We recommend the latest issue of the DVV International Newsletter, the contents of which are found through the links found below. A number of the pieces in the newsletter relate to follow-up from the recent UNESCO CONFINTEA VII held in Morocco in June 2022. The Marrakech Framework for Action, Harnessing the transformational power of Adult Learning and Education, that emanated from the conference is attached for convenience.
An international conference took place in Chisinau, Moldova on 9-10 November 2022 on the role of ALE in the development of local communities with extensive participation from Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo and the Ukraine. It was part of the DVV International Regional Project for Eastern Neighbours and jointly organized with the European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA). In addition to the countries mentioned above there were interesting case studies also from Germany, Greece and Sweden as well as the European Training Foundation (ETF).
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