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Report of Australian Learning Communities Network Regional Conference in May in Townsville

Subscribers will recall that the Australian Learning Communities Network held a Regional Conference in May in Townsville.  I think we all agree it was a great program with lots of opportunities to develop our skills.  It has taken a little while but I have now updated the webpage to include the presenters’ powerpoints as well as our report at this link; the report is also featured below for easy access.

Report for Delegates of the Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions Symposium, Swansea 2014

On May 21st 2014 Swansea University hosted a Symposium entitled Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions. It was attended by forty-five invited delegates drawn from the Swansea Learning City initiative and from a number of countries engaged in developing entrepreneurial learning city regions.

Inauguration of Learning Cities Networks, a PASCAL Learning Cities 2020 project:

The Chairman of the PASCAL Governing Board, Dr Josef Konvitz, issued the following statement today on the inauguration of the new program of Learning Cities Networks, a PASCAL Learning Cities 2020 project:

Declaration of Taipei as a Learning City

We firmly believe that helping city citizens to pursue lifelong learning ensures a sustainable development of Taipei city. Therefore, learning must be regarded as a continuing, lifelong process for improving the knowledge and skills needed in the city life as well as for fostering the self realization of the city dwellers.  We pledge to make redoubled efforts to promote the following urban development visions:

Östersund: Pride, Joy and Surplus Value

The aim of this project is to encourage, promote and facilitate volunteering at cultural heritage institutions in the Nordic and Baltic countries, nationally and across the borders. Volunteering is seen as a form of informal learning and a positive contribution to the community.

Host City Glasgow Project

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

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

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

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

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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