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ALCN Ripples - February 2024

Posted February 19, 2024 - 10:43 by Leone Wheeler

The Australian Learning Communities Network Ripples newsletter for February 2024 features dates for our online learning forums, and the Brimbank Writers and Readers Festival (Victoria), as well as a summary of the City of Ballarat’s lifelong learning profile (Victoria) and the City of Port Adelaide Enfield Libraries 2023 Impact project. Feedback and contributions for the next edition of the newsletter is welcome.

DECODE Project - a call for case studies

Posted February 17, 2024 - 12:58 by Rajesh Tandon

The UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education in collaboration with the Knowledge for Change Consortium are pleased to share information on a new and exciting project designed to generate evidence of the impact on policy or practice of community and Indigenous-led research.

Call for Papers | Special Edition: Australian Journal of Adult Learning Power, policies, and practices in adult literacies

Posted February 8, 2024 - 19:52 by Sandra Gee

This Special Issue of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning (AJAL) will explore various trends developing at the forefront of literacies in adult education, to consider ways that literacies are being defined and enacted in current times in research and practice. We encourage submissions from around the globe about literacies that relate to these four fields:

  • Critical literacy
  • New literacy studies
  • Multiliteracies
  • Sociocultural approaches to additional language learning in adult education

Streets, publicness and the public realm | JOHN TIBBITT from Policies for Places

Posted February 8, 2024 - 19:32 by John Tibbitt

The City of Edinburgh has just announced the beginning of a 3-month consultation on its new transportation plan to help the city achieve its zero-carbon target by 2030. The transport convenor hopes the consultation will reach every ‘nook and cranny’ of the city to hear people’s views and further refine the proposals. The city is one of the most congested in the UK. It also has a fast-growing population with land set aside for an additional 37000 homes. If current transportation patterns continue mobility problems for residents, businesses and visitors can only get worse.

Impact – Playing the Long Game | Briefing Paper 21, published in collaboration with the Centre for Research in Adult and Lifelong Learning, University of Glasgow

Posted February 7, 2024 - 15:20 by Mike Osborne

The impact of research has been growing ever more important not only in its own right, but as a factor that feeds into funding decisions at both institutional and individual levels. We are therefore pleased to present a Working Paper written by the Director of PASCAL and CR&DALL, Professor Mike Osborne, in which he assesses the cumulative impact of research that assesses the cumulative effect of research that has systematically measured, mapped and analysed learning provision at urban/regional level, contributing internationally to developing learning cities over decades.

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