Network Blogs

Here are the latest Learning Cities Networks Blog postings (to see specific Network Blogs, please click on the relevant name from the list of NETWORKS in the left hand column):

 

PASCAL - EMA join forces in Östersund, Sweden to explore the relationship between culture, heritage, museums and the wider engagement with new groups

Posted Saturday, February 9, 2019 - 14:22 by Rob Mark

Network: Harnessing Cultural Policies in Building Sustainable Learning Cities

The Spring conference of the European Museum Academy (EMA) took place at the JAMTLI Foundation, Östersund, Sweden from 6-8 February 2019.

The conference also hosted the Kenneth Hudson Seminar, a joint PASCAL - EMA initiative. The theme of the seminar was on cultural policy and literacy development and represent a follow on from an earlier seminar held in Aarhus, Denmark in September 2018.

The Senior Citizens Heritage Learning Initiative

Posted Friday, February 8, 2019 - 13:24 by Henrik Zipsane

Network: Harnessing Cultural Policies in Building Sustainable Learning Cities

Museums are traditionally characterised by their way of working and not by their purpose. The public are not surprised that museums in general collect, preserve and display traces of art and history. The way museums produce is however not the same as the aim or purpose of museums. The role of museums in their community - local, national or even global - may differ but the museums way of working somehow supports or stimulate the aims and as always easiest to understand on some years distance. 

The Monash University Global Immersion Guarantee (GIG) study experience connects students with a challenging world

Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 10:11 by Peter Kearns

Network: Implementing an EcCoWell Approach for Holistic Development

Monash University in Australia has developed an immersion international experience for first year students titled the Global Immersion Guarantee (GIG) which enables first year Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Global Studies and associated double degree students to attend a fully funded immersion learning experience starting with India, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Italy.

A Comment on the Councils on the Ageing (COTA) State of the (Older) Nation 2018 Report

Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 09:12 by Peter Kearns

Network: Implementing an EcCoWell Approach for Holistic Development

The PASCAL International Observatory has a strong interest in learning in later life which was recently reflected in a report entitled Towards good active ageing for all in a context of deep demographic change and dislocation, produced by the PASCAL and PIMA SIG on Learning in Later Life.

Learning city e diversità culturale (Learning city and cultural diversity) - New book with PASCAL contributors

Posted Sunday, January 20, 2019 - 09:22 by John Tibbitt

Network: Harnessing Cultural Policies in Building Sustainable Learning Cities

We are very pleased to announce a new book concerning learning cities edited by Paolo Di Rienzo and Liliosa Azara (Eds.) Learning city e diversità culturale and published in 2018 by Rubbettino Editore in Italy.

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