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):

 

Host City Glasgow Project

Network: Harnessing Cultural Policies in Building Sustainable Learning Cities

The Host City Glasgow Project is a 3-year project, lead by Glasgow Life, to help maximise the potential impact of Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games on civic pride, volunteering legacy aspirations, and communities in the host city of Glasgow.

Two key components:

African Rural Learning Ecologies

Network: Connecting Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives

This paper contributes, through traversing contested notions of sustainability, social justice, development and food sovereignty, to discourses around creation of sustainable rural learning ecologies. There has always been at least in the realm of scientific discourse, an attempt to dissociate the natural or physical environment from the social and human environment. This trend did not only affect the two spheres of existence only. It is further imbued and spawned fragmented and pervasive terminology, practices and human thought.

Ideas informing the Gwydir Learning Region

Network: Connecting Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives

Abstract

The Gwydir Learning Region is a partnership that was originally formed in 2000 between local government, education, business and community stakeholders in the north-west area of New South Wales. An evaluation undertaken in 2006 included an examination of the conceptual framework of the Learning Region. The evaluation showed that since 2000 stakeholders of the Gwydir Learning Region have consciously investigated a range of other learning regions to see which concepts might apply in the Gwydir region.

Gabarone, Botswana & Calabar, Nigeria - A Brief

Network: Connecting Urban and Rural Learning Initiatives

Preamble

This preamble makes available three pieces of information, namely, the names of participating entities to the network, names of current members including the leadership and plans for future membership.

To kick start the Gaboborone-Calabar Learning Cities 2020 Network, the following participating institutions, cities and members’ names have been retained:

About Taipei Learning City

Network: Implementing an EcCoWell Approach for Holistic Development

I am a coordinator of Taipei Learning City, and have written some articles about Learning Cities over the past three years. The files included below consist of articles on the Taipei Learning City website.

I hope these articles can help you understand Taipei Learning City better.

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