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Ripples - Winter 2016 Newsletter of the Australian Learning Communities Network (ALCN)

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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Thursday, 12 May, 2016

PASCAL 2016 Conference in Glasgow 3-5 June ***UPDATES***

The PASCAL 2016 Conference in Glasgow 3-5 June, 2016 is less than a month away. Practioners from around the World are attending to present and discuss an exciting range of issues on their experience to date with and future directions for Learning Cities.

Showcases from 15+ cites and 64+ presentations and papers will be featured. Cities as diverse as Taipei, Beijing, Townsville, Erbil, Duhok, Acireale, Glasgow, Swansea, Cork and Bristol have confirmed that they will be attending and promoting their work. Speakers include Raul Valdes Cotera from the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL).

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Friday, 6 May, 2016

Call for papers - International comparisons of basic education policies

Please find featured below a call for papers from the Zeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung, which is the leading German journal in our field. The editors are planning a special issue around international comparisons of basic education policies, which will discuss the nature and effects of surveys such as PIAAC.

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Thursday, 24 March, 2016

Ripples - Autumn 2016 Newsletter of the Australian Learning Communities Network

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

PASCAL 2016 Conference Abstract & Showcase deadline extended to Feb 22

We have had an excellent response to the call for abstracts and city showcases for the 13th PASCAL Conference 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.

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Friday, 5 February, 2016

Book Launch of Cities and Crisis - Josef Konvitz - 25 February 2016 - Glasgow

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, on 25 February 2016 in Glasgow.

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Thursday, 4 February, 2016

Learning Cities in Kurdistan

Colleagues we hope will be interested to read this article 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.

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Tuesday, 2 February, 2016

Agenda 2030 – From the past towards the future we want

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.

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Wednesday, 27 January, 2016

From smart cities to smart learning environments - A comparative study

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).

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Thursday, 21 January, 2016

PASCAL 2016 in Glasgow, 3-5 June 2016, Strand 1 Inclusion: providing lifelong learning opportunities for all

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) and Learning Cities Networks (LCN) 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 in Glasgow, 3-5 June, 2016.

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Wednesday, 2 December, 2015

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