Community Development

HIV, Human Rights and Development Network Inaugural Seminar

Please find featured below and attached details of the Inaugural Seminar of the HIV, Human Rights and Development Network; this was set up following research with HIV positive asylum seekers last year. The Inaugural Seminar of the Network is on 9 May 2013 at the Scottish Parliament from 5.30 - 8.00pm.

Kind regards.

David Wright
GCID/GHRN Administrator

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Monday, 22 April, 2013

Cities Learning Together - Local Communities in the Sustainable and Healthy Learning City - 11th PASCAL International Observatory Conference

Organised by The EU Centre at RMIT and hosted by The Hong Kong Institute of Education, the 11th PASCAL International Observatory Conference will take place in Hong Kong, 18-20 November 2013 with fieldwork to test approaches in different Hong Kong settings on 19 November.

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Thursday, 11 April, 2013

Conference: Interrogating Sustainability in Adult Learning Policy - 1st Call for proposals

The ESREA Network in Policy Studies on Adult Education is happy to announce its II Conference: Interrogating Sustainability in Adult Learning Policy: European and Global Perspectives. The Conference will be hosted at Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark on 18-20 June 2014. Scholars from all countries are invited to submit proposals. Proposals may relate to any part of the world, and to any topic related to policy in adult education and lifelong learning. The following themes are intended to inspire, rather than to set boundaries.

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Thursday, 11 April, 2013

Adult learning in a distance education context: theoretical and methodological challenges

The seminar reports the findings of a recent research study aspiring  to unveil and illuminate some of the adult learning processes as well as the ‘fine-grained’ processes that are at work during the organization and delivery of the courses at the Open University, with the aim to underline the factors influencing these processes.  It has as its main units of analysis adult learners’ and their educators’ experiences and perceptions of adult learning in a distance education context and rests profoundly on a research framework that views certain programme elements as being vital in unveiling t

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Thursday, 11 April, 2013

Xploit - first version of learningcommunities.eu launched

The first version of the final and reorganized Xploit outcomes website is now launched.

It is really a first version, and it will be further developed during the next months.

However, most of the content is in place, so you are invited to take a look (please click the image):

 

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Tuesday, 9 April, 2013

Community Engagement: Community-based Adult Education – Tales from the Field

This one-day participative event is presented by the University of Edinburgh and the University of Warwick. The aim is to generate discussion and debate on the key and important issue of community engagement and community-based adult education from a comparative perspective by drawing on theory and practice from Scotland, Canada and England.

The day will focus on three main areas of discussion:

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Tuesday, 9 April, 2013

Building Lifelong Learning in conditions of closure and siege

Professor Elaydi will outline the specific conditions of Gaza, which are unique. Gaza is already a learning society with a range of formal provision in family and kindergarten projects, NGOs, schools and universities. Informal provision includes unions, religious institutions and local government learning centers. Yet the learning resources are grossly over stretched. Gaza has a dense population and few natural resources, outside of the people of Gaza who attend 27 institutions of Higher Education.

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Monday, 8 April, 2013

World Congress on Access to Post-Secondary Education, Montreal Oct. 7-10/13

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Exploring Community and the State

In the UK the agency Locality is hosting a debate on exploring a possible new deal between community and the state. Locality describe this event as: How should we respond to austerity policies? Shout from the sidelines, stand by as services are dismantled or look for more positive and more fundamental alternatives? At this event, we will discuss how we can ‘build possibility’ by changing the relationship between the state, community and individual citizens - by shifting power and mobilizing the many. We'll share learning from recent practice around: community organising neighbourhood community budgets community enterprise community asset ownership digital innovation Thought-provoking, informative, practical – don’t miss this event for anyone who cares about the future of our public services. Speakers Speakers include Don Foster MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for DCLG; Neal Lawson, Chair of Compass; Geraldine Blake, CEO of Community Links More details are here: http://locality.org.uk/events/building-possibility-deal-community-state/ Buy Kicks | Nike Releases, Launch Links & Raffles

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International Association for Community Development

The International Association for Community Development (IACD) is a global network of community activists, professional development workers and academics. IACD and CRADALL have functional links through the work of Rod Purcell and Dave Beck. Both Rod and Dave are CRADALL Affiliates and staff members of the University of Glasgow as well as being board members of IACD. In June 2014 the IACD international conference will be in Glasgow and hosted by the University. More details will be given in a future post. One of the roles of IACD is to publish on current practice innovations and research findings relating to community development. Readers may be interested in the following publications: Practice Insights: which has articles on community development and poverty in Scotland, Asset Building in Europe, Self-reliant groups in India and an article by Rod on community organising in Chicago. http://www.iacdglobal.org/files/ipi_issue_1_final_final_low_res.pdf Lisbon Papers: Edited by Mick Carpenter of the Community Development Journal and Rod Purcell, these are the key papers from the 2011 IACD international conference. http://www.iacdglobal.org/publications-and-resources/conference-reports/... Appreciating Assets: A thorough introduction and discussion of the asset approach to community development. http://www.iacdglobal.org/files/Carnegie_UK_Trust_-_Appreciating_Assets_... More information on IACD can be found here: http://www.iacdglobal.org/ Sports brands | adidas Yeezy Foam Runner Sand - Grailify

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