Faith and Spirituality-based Learning City Development

Faith-based Learning City DevelopmentKEY AIM: Faith and spirituality-based learning city development for a more aware and resilient world in fostering global consciousness and citizenship identifies the many issues that impact on our spirituality, empathy, meaning, values and life experience. We can bring together individuals and groups in respect, care, compassion and positive action for others, the planet and a higher order.

Various spiritual practices can be explored and shared. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals also figure in response to the conflict and crises in the world today. Education, learning and prayer can contribute much to this network and add in a commitment to global stewardship and healing.

Therefore the goal of this Network is to gather interested scholars and practitioners around the intersections of faith, spirituality and learning cities.

 

Network Blogs

Spirituality on a Spectrum from Religion to Art in Learning Cities - recording of LCN webinar on 25 September 2024

The 2nd webinar of the PASCAL Learning City Network dedicated to faith and spirituality was held on 25th September 2024, and focused on  art and faith in the learning city, discussing the diverse spectrum of intervention tools for supporting learning communities.

Our deepest gratitude goes to the speakers at this second external-facing webinar of our LCN this year:

•             John Meredith (Diocesan Director of Education, Swansea, UK) 

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

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.

Webinar - Faith and Spirituality in Learning cities: Empathy & Sympathy of Human vs AI Moral Advisers in Cities

Mar 15 2024 12:30
Europe/London
*** ZOOM WEBINAR ***
Swansea

The PASCAL Learning Cities Network (LCN), Faith and Spirituality-based Learning City Development, and the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS), in partnership with Swansea University and Glasgow University, are very happy to invite you to this open-access WEBINAR on the challenges and opportunities for using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in spiritual instruction. Can AI ensure moral flourishing, learning, and well-being in our cities?

*** POSTPONED *** A Reflection on the Philosophical Foundation of Islamic Leadership - A Leverhulme Lecture by Nematollah Azizi

Dec 5 2023 17:30
Europe/London
The Multi Faith Centre, University of Derby
Kedleston Rd
Derby
United Kingdom  United Kingdom

Sorry, this event is postponed

The next and 3rd Leverhulme Lecture from Professor Nematollah Azizi, University of Kurdistan, Iran and Visiting Leverhulme Professor at the University of Glasgow, entitled,  A Reflection on the Philosophical Foundation of Islamic Leadership will be held on Tuesday, 5th December 2023, at 7.00 pm at the Multi-Faith Centre, University of Derby. Kedleston Road Derby
DE22 1GB, UK.

Swansea University and PASCAL International Observatory collaborate to host Leverhulme Lecture on Islamic pedagogical capabilities for learning cities

On Thursday, 19th October 2023, Swansea University hosted a Leverhulme Lecture titled “Pedagogical Capabilities in Islam to Create, Maintain and Develop Justice-oriented Learning Cities”. The lecture was presented by Nematollah Azizi, a Leverhulme Professor at the University of Glasgow and a faculty member at the University of Kurdistan in Iran. This visit was organized by Swansea University, along the International PASCAL Observatory collaboration, where Swansea Learning City and Swansea University are active members and were happy to host Professor Azizi as their guest from their partner University of Glasgow.  The lecture by Professor Azizi aimed to explore the role of Islamic pedagogical capabilities in creating and maintaining justice-oriented learning cities.

Leverhulme Lecture - Pedagogical Capabilities in Islam to Create, Maintain and Develop Justice-oriented Learning Cities

Oct 19 2023 11:00
Oct 19 2023 13:00
Europe/London
University of Swansea
Swansea
United Kingdom
United Kingdom  United Kingdom
Attendees: 
Annie Tubadji
Attendees: 
Nematollah Azizi

We are very pleased to announce a Leverhulme Lecture, entitled 'Pedagogical Capabilities in Islam to Create, Maintain and Develop Justice-oriented Learning Cities' to be presented by Nematollah Azizi, University of Kurdistan, Iran and Visiting Leverhulme Professor, University of Glasgow on Thursday, 19th October 2023, 1100-1300, Glyndwr D, Simpleton Campus, University of Swansea. The building is 11.1 on the campus map. All are welcome to this lecture.

The Work of the Faith and Spirituality-based Learning City Development from 2016 to 2023

One of the foci of the work of PASCAL is the field of Learning City Developments is the Faith and Spirituality-based Learning City Network. An overview of its work from 2016-2023 can be found at this link, and we are sure that this will be of wide interest to our subscribers.

Spirituality At Work – The Next Frontier of Workplace Wellbeing?

Depending on where you are in the world as you read this, the invitation to consider spirituality in the workplace may seem either foolhardy or prosaic.  Some readers may already enjoy places of prayer and meditation in their place of work while for others the topic may seem fraught with human and indeed potentially legal problems.

A busy year for the PASCAL LCN Faith-based Learning City Development network

The PASCAL Learning Cities Networks (LCN) Faith-based Learning City Development network has been busy this past year, drawing on the tangible resources of a lens grounded in faith and spirituality to build community resilience and work towards renewal in our respective localities during these times of pandemic, protest and increasing climate change.

Webinar | The Future of Sustainability: The Head, The Heart and the Hand of Sustainability

Oct 3 2020 04:30
Asia/Manila
*** ONLINE WEBINAR ***
Manila
Philippines  Philippines

Inviting you to the Webinar The Future of Sustainability: The Head, The Heart and the Hand of Sustainability.

October 3, 2020 Saturday at 5 in the afternoon Manila time (11am CEST). Please register in advance to receive the Zoom link and password. 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkfu6urDMrEtRm7M2qLL2OUlzSKNUXHCZ8

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