Adult, Vocational and Community-based Learning

Leverhulme Visiting Professorship - Nematollah Azizi

This visiting professorship funded by the Leverhulme Trust consists a one-year programme of work being undertaken by Professor Nematollah Azizi from the University of Kurdistan under the supervision of Professor Michael Osborne, Director of CR&DALL.

The core aim of the programme is to enhance understanding of how universities can better contribute to sustainable economic, social and cultural development of their host cities through analysis of distinct approaches that have been taken in Iran in the context of Islamic thinking around culture and spirituality, identifying practices that are transferable to the UK. By contrast, the programme also seeks to explore potentially transferability of practices from the UK to Iran.

The specific objectives are as follows:

  • To examine the factors within universities that lead to successful knowledge exchange between universities and cities, in both Iran and the UK aligning these to the localisation of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including the influence of:
    • national and regional policy frameworks;
    • economically and socially driven performance targets o culture and spirituality;
    • university and urban structures for leadership;
    • the embeddedness of service to local communities within learning programmes;
    • mechanisms to promote engagement.
  • There will be particular attention given to what can be learnt and practiced by university academics, students and administrators at the University of Glasgow as they strive for more effective knowledge exchange with urban communities through assessing principles of teaching and learning, and of engagement from an Islamic perspective;
  • There will be a particular effort given to approaches that will enhance engagement with Muslim communities in Glasgow, and that will make contributions to the university’s efforts in decolonialising the curriculum. Contributions will also be made to similar endeavours in community engaged research in other nations of the UK.

Lessons learnt from UK practices will be analysed for potential transfer to Iran. It is funded by the Leverhulme Trust with £138,625.

 

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New book inspired by Professor Jim Gallacher - Access, Lifelong Learning and Education for All

New book inspired by Professor Jim Gallacher - Access, Lifelong Learning and Education for All

A new book, Access, Lifelong Learning and Education for All, has just been published in the Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning (PSAELL) book series, and is edited by Gareth Parry, Peter Scott and CR&DALL Director, Mike Osborne.

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Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
Special Issue of Education and Training

Special Issue of Education and Training

My colleagues (Dr Saikat Maitra, Indian Institute of Management Kolkata, India; Prof. Dr. Matthias Pilz, Univ. of Cologne, Germany) are editing a special issue of the journal, Educationa and Training, entitled, 'Not in high regard: an exploration of low reputation of vocational education in the Global South'.

This special issue will explore a comparative analysis of the factors behind the lower reputation of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the Global South.

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Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
Book launch: Transitioning Vocational Education and Training in Africa

Book launch: Transitioning Vocational Education and Training in Africa

This book takes an expansive view of vocational education and training. Drawing on case studies across rural and urban Uganda and South Africa, the book offers a new way of seeing this through an exploration of the multiple ways in which people learn to have better livelihoods. EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

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Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
GWT - Global Intergenerational Conference - 8 March, 2023

GWT - Global Intergenerational Conference - 8 March, 2023

Generations Working Together is delighted to open registration to our 12th Global Intergenerational Conference which has attracted speakers and delegates from across the world.

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Monday, 13 February, 2023
New Project - Learning for Informal Language Educators in Refugee Settings in Lebanon and Jordan.

New Project - Learning for Informal Language Educators in Refugee Settings in Lebanon and Jordan. A pilot study.

This new project with Maria Grazia Imperiale as PI will investigate the role of informal language educators working in refugee settings in Lebanon and Jordan, and pilot ways of co-creating professional development with the language educators themselves, nurturing agency. It will support educators in examining and articulating their vision for refugee language education through providing connections and opportunities for discussion with refugees and those working with refugees in their own and other contexts, including host communities. 

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Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
New Project led by Maria Grazia Imperiale - Seeing Arts Health Research Enacted (SHARED)

New Project led by Maria Grazia Imperiale - Seeing Arts Health Research Enacted (SHARED)

We are very pleased to announce that core CR&DALL member, Maria Grazia Imperiale, is the co-I of a new Arts and Humanties Research Council (AHRC) funded project entitled, Seeing Arts Health Research Enacted (SHARED): Understanding what works for whom in arts and humanities-based approaches for mental health and wellbeing across the globe. Congratulations to Grazia on this award.

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Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
CR&DALL Seminar - Can principles of educational gerontology be acquired fully through practice?

CR&DALL Seminar - Can principles of educational gerontology be acquired fully through practice? Results of a senior workers' study within the framework of critical educational gerontology.

The Next CR&DALL seminar will be held on 31st January at 1600 in Room 234, St Andrew’s Building, School of Education, University of Glasgow, 11 Eldon St, Glasgow G3 6NH. The presenter will be Dr Tiina Tambaum, Estonian Institute for Population Studies, Tallinn University. All are welcome. Please RSVP to [email protected].

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Tuesday, 7 February, 2023

Learning for Informal Language Educators in Refugee Settings in Lebanon and Jordan. A pilot study.

This project investigates the role of informal language educators working in refugee settings in Lebanon and Jordan, and pilot ways of co-creating professional development with the language educators themselves, nurturing agency. It will support educators in examining and articulating their vision for refugee language education through providing connections and opportunities for discussion with refugees and those working with refugees in their own and other contexts, including host communities. 

The language learning needs of refugees in Jordan and Lebanon are supported by teachers in formal, non-formal and informal settings. Teacher development can be lacking or inconsistent, particularly for teachers in informal contexts, even though informal education is key to education in emergency, when formal education is disrupted. These teachers are often working through initiatives run by local or international NGOs which are timebound and donor-dependent, and may be in a transitory position themselves, resulting in lack of continuity and shared learning, and in few opportunities to have a say in how they develop as teachers and achieve their aspirations or to contribute to longer-term planning.

This is a key challenge in refugee education and for education in contexts of emergency and crisis more widely. 

This pilot will allow to: 

(a) collect pilot data on the scope and nature of local challenges in Lebanon and Jordan; 

(b) explore new ways of co-creating teacher professional development through participatory and decolonising approaches which strengthen educators’ agency and identity; and, 

(c) establish relationships in Lebanon and Jordan that will help to ensure collaboration and co-creation of knowledge with Global South partners working in challenging contexts. 

The project is funded internally within the University of Glasgow through the Glasgow Centre for International Developmentsmall grants scheme with £19,761 from January to June 2023.

 The PI is Maria Grazia Imperiale and the Co-Is are Dr Giovanna Fassetta and Damian Ross.

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Seeing Arts Health Research Enacted (SHARED): Understanding what works for whom in arts and humanities-based approaches for mental health and wellbeing across the globe.

This project funded by an AHRC Networking Grant from August 2022 to April 2023 will establish an international network of researchers, arts providers and health partners to explore:  

  • which Arts and Humanities based approaches are working for whom (when, why and where)  

and  

  • what is evidenced best practice for embedding Arts and Humanities-based research in mental health and wellbeing provision in diverse socio-cultural contexts, nationally and globally. 

With a specific focus on equality and inclusion, and the special part Arts and Humanities have to play in overcoming health inequities and exclusions globally, the network is motivated by a ‘trans-knowledging’ agenda. Research evidence shows that high income countries have valuable lessons to learn from low-income ones, especially in embracing pluralism in respect of approaches to mental health and wellbeing.  

Three focused workshops - (i) strategic partnerships between Arts and Health providers (ii) inclusive practices in mental health care and (iii) alignment with existing community capacities - will bring together state-of-the-art knowledge and expertise with ongoing successful models of Arts and Humanities-based research in mental health from across the world.  

Building on the exceptionally strong track record in two UK cities (Liverpool and Glasgow) of innovative collaboration between arts and health, as well as on the interdisciplinary research team's experience of working locally and (inter)nationally on Arts and Humanities research for mental health, the workshop series will emphasise co-creation with stakeholders of the means for embedding research-based change and promoting joined-up planning of arts in health care nationally and internationally. 

The project will also create a digital anthology of best practices, including case studies of international models

The project has a number of partners:

  • Mishwar Amal (Scotland/Lebanon)
  • Wellbeing of the Woods (Glasgow, Scotland)
  • UNESCO RILA (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
  • Nawa for Culture and Arts Association (Palestine)
  • Sturzebecker Health Science Centre, integrating arts with mindfulness (USA)
  • Community-based Sociotherapy Adapted for Refugees (COSTAR) (Uganda and Rwanda).
  • NHS Mersey Care & Liverpool Philharmonic (Liverpool, UK)
  • Cinema, Memory and Wellbeing (UK/Brazil)
  • Reading in the Care Home (New Zealand)
  • Uganda Clinical Psychology Association (Uganda)

The Co-I within CR&DALL at the University of Glasgow is Dr Maria Grazia Imperiale and the PI at the University of Liverpool is Professor Josie Billington. The award for the project is £39,184.

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Seeing Arts Health Research Enacted (SHARED)

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