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PASCAL Learning Cities Networks | Harnessing Museums, Heritage and Education

Posted October 27, 2020 - 10:43 by Henrik Zipsane

The focus for the Learning City Network on Harnessing Museums, Heritage and Education is combining rich museum theory with innovative field-based practices in world-leading museum and heritage sites in order to address a recognised pan-European need for more informed, strategic and entrepreneurial professionals within the sector.

Celebrating Learning in Brimbank

Posted April 12, 2024 - 12:35 by Peter Kearns

Celebrating Learning is a bimonthly newsletter sharing local projects, good news stories, information and resources relating to learning in all its forms. Celebrating Learning is an initiative of the Brimbank Community Learning Strategy..

Back issues are available here.

Covid Education Alliance (COVIDEA): Adapting education systems to a fast changing and increasingly digital world through the use of appropriate technologies

Posted March 28, 2024 - 13:14 by Veerle Vandeweerd

I am very pleased to share with PASCAL subscribers, a document produced by the Covid Education Alliance (COVIDEA), entitled, Adapting education systems to a fast changing and increasingly digital world through the use of appropriate technologies - A primer.

Faith and Spirituality-based Learning City Development - Briefing Paper 25

Posted March 25, 2024 - 12:59 by Annie Tubadji

We are pleased to present the attached Briefing Paper 25 concerned with the work of PASCAL's Learning Cities Network (LCN) on Faith and Spirituality. This LCN is a group of researchers, practitioners and policy makers united by the PASCAL Observatory and working jointly on topics related to faith and spirituality in learning city developments.

OECD Programme on a Territorial Approach to the SDGs and 7th OECD Roundtable on Cities and Regions for the SDGs

Posted March 21, 2024 - 18:08 by Josef Konvitz

Subscribers may be interested in the OECD Programme on a Territorial Approach to the SDGs, an ambitious programme to support cities and regions to develop, implement and monitor strategies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Age-friendly cities and lifelong learning

Posted March 19, 2024 - 22:32 by Brian Findsen

My article, Age-friendly cities and lifelong learning, may interest PASCAL subscribers especially those interest in learning cities. There is a huge gap between rhetoric at the macro/global level and what can happen at the local level of practice related to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) framework for Age-friendly cities. Many cities make no contribution at all to such intiatives such is the dire state of public finances.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 24 - Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills Acquisition in Disadvantaged Populations: Evidence from the Nurture thru Nature (NtN) Experiment

Posted March 19, 2024 - 15:06 by Radha Jagannathan

It is widely acknowledged that public schools in the US have failed to produce sufficient levels of high quality STEM education. The mathematics and science performance of minority and disadvantaged students has been especially troubling with blacks and Hispanics substantially underrepresented in the STEM labor market.

17th PASCAL conference, July 4th to 6th, 2024 - New Challenges for Higher Education, Cities and Regions: Addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in Changing Contexts – Revised Dates for Abstracts

Posted March 8, 2024 - 12:25 by Mike Osborne

Whilst we have been very pleased with the response that we have had to our call for abstracts for the 17th PASCAL conference in Taipei, a number of colleagues have requested an extension of the deadline. Therefore we are now announcing a new deadline of 1 April 2024 for further abstracts.

New Challenges for Higher Education, Cities and Regions: Addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in Changing Contexts

Posted March 4, 2024 - 15:18 by Mike Osborne

Dear LCN participants,

A reminder that today (4 March) is the deadline to submit abstracts to the conference in Taipei, and we hope that a number of you are able to come from the LCNs.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 22 - Harnessing Museums, Heritage and Education

Posted February 27, 2024 - 11:38 by Catherine Lido

We are pleased to publish PASCAL Briefing Paper 22, entitled Harnessing Museums, Heritage and Education. PASCAL’s Learning Cities Network (LCN) on Harnessing Museums, Heritage and Education builds upon our prior Special Interest Group in cultural heritage and literacy inclusion, to now combine rich museum theory with innovative field-based practices. We engage with diverse stakeholders, including universities, world-leading museum and heritage sites, and governmental stakeholders, to address increasing needs for more informed, strategic and entrepreneurial professionals within the cultural heritage sector, and dialogical spaces for knowledge exchange on inclusive cultural literacy and practice.

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