Please find featured below and attached the Autumn 2016 issue of the newsletter Ripples, from the Australian Learning Communities Network (ALCN).
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Friday, 18 March, 2016
Please find featured below and attached the Autumn 2016 issue of the newsletter Ripples, from the Australian Learning Communities Network (ALCN).
We have had an excellent response to the call for abstracts and city showcases for the 13th PASCAL Conference(link is external) in Glasgow from 3-5 June 2016, but a number of individuals and organisations have requested a slight extension in order to prepare their submissions. Therefore there are new deadlines for both the submissions of abstracts and city showcases of 22nd February.
The University of Glasgow is very pleased that we will be launching Professor Josef Konvitz's new book, Cities and Crisis, published by Manchester University Press(link is external), on 25 February 2016 in Glasgow.
Colleagues we hope will be interested to read this article (link is external)published in Times Higher Education about the work of Sherwan Taha, a former University of Glasgow Masters student, in fostering learning city development in Iraqi Kurdistan. We congratulate him on his efforts.
Global policies on education and lifelong learning influence regional, national and local policies. Historically the de-colonization period was a new beginning, but often led with a bad ending. A very important milestone in developing a global education agenda was the World Education Forum in 2000 in Dakar, and the then agreed Framework for Action on Education for All(link is external).
We are in the midst of a new economic age, a complex competitive landscape defined largely by globalization and digitalisation. That means that the utilization and production of knowledge and innovativeness have become critical to organizational survival (Uhl-Bien, Marion, McKelvey, 2007).
Inclusion has been central to the concept of a learning city from the beginning. While useful work has been undertaken in addressing exclusion in both the PASCAL International Exchanges (PIE(link is external)) and Learning Cities Networks (LCN(link is external)) programs, global contextual shifts and issues with mass migration flows, instability and high unemployment in many countries, and structural industry changes have raised a new generation of exclusion issues to add to the traditional issues in various stages of the lifecourse. PASCAL will be addressing these issues at their 13th International Conference(link is external) in Glasgow, 3-5 June, 2016.
FREELY AVAILABLE AS AN OPEN ACCESS BOOK! Featured below and also available through Sense Publishers(link is external).
Can adult education and learning be understood without reference to community and people’s daily lives? The response to be found in the chapters of this volume say emphatically no, they cannot. Adult learning can be best understood if we look at the social life of people in communities, and this book is an attempt to recover this view.
We are living in cities which are becoming more culturally and linguistically diverse through migration. In 2015 CAMOC, in its special 10th year anniversary, decided to focus on migration and its representation in city museums, first by dedicating its annual conference on the theme and now by partnering with the Open Museum, Glasgow to organise a special interactive workshop on 26/27 November 2015.
Please find featured below and attached the Winter 2015 issue of the newsletter Ripples, from the Australian Learning Communities Network (ALCN):
University of Glasgow
Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning (CR&DALL)
University of Glasgow, St. Andrew's Building, 11 Eldon Street, Glasgow G3 6NH, Scotland
tel: +44 (0) 141 330 1835
email: cradall@glasgow.ac.uk(link sends e-mail)
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