Professor Parker will be sharing her recent book 'Taking Flight: Making Your Center for Teaching and Learning Soar', emerging from her work in the Center for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Leadership, at UNC-Wilmington.
Michele's work centres around transforming departmental culture, such as 'Empowering a department through Appreciative Inquiry', and will include her recent cross-continental work on course design between Ethiopia and the USA.
Please join us if you are interested in school leadership at any level, as well as in learning more about appreciative inquiry approaches to staff development in different cultural contexts.
It has been more than 10 years since the ESREA Between Global and Local – Adult Learning and Communities network congress was held in Istanbul. Since then, the world has been struggling with a number of adversities affecting almost every aspect of life.
ALA and partners WAVE, ACED and the RMIT European Centre for Education are committed to advancing equitable access to quality adult education and urge Australian Governments to transform education and training systems to ensure that all individuals, communities, and businesses can participate equally and achieve the outcomes necessary to enjoy a sustainable emerging future.
As the 2024 Presidential campaigns begin to emerge in the U.S. it’s tempting to fall into familiar habits of oversimplifying the challenges we face to make it easier to pick a side. And, of course, that’s just what every campaign wants us to do. The truth, however, is that the binary choices on the ballot represent very complex mixtures of factions, powerbases, interests, aspirations, and preferences for how we want our government to understand and to address the increasingly complex problems America faces in the world.
The Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education (CJSAE) is pleased to announce the publication of it latest issue: Breaking the Armour and Stirring the Soul. Each article in this issue shares a fresh perspective about adult and continuing education, and challenges us to learn.
The Arts of Inclusion Network event. 23 March 2023, 11am-3pm, Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow.
The purpose of this event is to present the work of The Arts of Inclusion (TAI) network and discuss the role of music for other-than-musical purposes, with examples form a recent book by TAI members, Music and Social Inclusion: https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/280374/. This event will offer opportunities for networking and is open to staff and doctoral students, as well as practitioners interested in the topic.
Another month has flown by! As ever, the epic theme affecting our work as widening participation practitioners concerns social mobility. This month’s newsletter tries to explore some of the key debates currently surrounding this matter, including the role that technical education it is likely to play in our work in the future, as well as planned changes to admissions.
A Policy Forum, entitled Transforming Education and Training in Australia – Challenges and Opportunities, was held on 15 February 2023 at RMIT University which aimed to contribute to the current policy conversations on transformation from the perspective of employment, education and skills development that ensures the principles of equity, gender, and sustainability.
Welcome to our first issue of Quest for 2023 featuring stories and news about life-changing adult education programs around Australia.
This book takes an expansive view of vocational education and training. Drawing on case studies across rural and urban Uganda and South Africa, the book offers a new way of seeing this through an exploration of the multiple ways in which people learn to have better livelihoods. EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This session brings together two projects from the University of Glasgow, School of Education and CR&DALL focussed on Everyday Peace. Presenters: Professor Mo Hume, Dr Avila Kilmurray, Dr Sinead Gormally and Professor Evelyn Arizpe.
Join us to celebrate the Scottish launch of the book Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development and the launch of a short video from the project, “Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises”.
The University has advertised the following position: Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Research Methods in Education (R&T).
A Showcase of Community Creativity - 8 March from 10.30am – 1.30pm, Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow. All are welcome for a fantastic celebration of how community groups are turning their creativity into actions for a more sustainable way of living.
A decade ago the University of Würzburg in Germany took the initiative to start a program that is now called the Adult Education Academy (AEA) for master´s students, doctoral students, and practitioners. A number of partner universities in Hungary, Italy, India, Nigeria, Portugal, Serbia, and Slovenia joined and later invited professional organisations representing providers and practitioners like DVV International and the European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA).
We are happy to share this newsletter from the World Committee for Lifelong Learning, and to report that Dr Yulia Nesterova will be contributing on behalf of CR&DALL to the 7th World Forum in Alexandria.
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