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Symposium Invitation | Focus on Agency: Track & Trace, Unlock & Unblock

Symposium Invitation | Focus on Agency: Track & Trace, Unlock & Unblock

This symposium is occasioned by three remarkable PhD dissertations in the field of learning and development. All three concern strategies of fostering agency of those less heard: of school children and teachers in a local school in Groningen, of youth and their educators in vocational education in Uganda, and of lifelong learning practitioners in NGOs in Uganda. All three apply Action Research methods aimed at freeing, ‘unlocking’, the agency of participants and their communities.

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Saturday, 23 October, 2021
Work-o-Witch New Article: The old fear of the end of new work itself

Work-o-Witch New Article: The old fear of the end of new work itself

A new article on W-o-W has just been published: The old fear of the end of new work itself  by Joerg Markowitsch. We all look forward to the end of the working day, but not the end of work itself. The fear of automation and the end of work is an old topos, as evidenced by industrial films from the 1950s...

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Thursday, 21 October, 2021
Pre-COP Webinar - Australia, ‘Good’ Global Governance and the Geopolitics of Climate Negotiation

Pre-COP Webinar - Australia, ‘Good’ Global Governance and the Geopolitics of Climate Negotiations - 27 October 2021

We are pleased to announce a further Pre-COP Webinar: Australia, ‘Good’ Global Governance and the Geopolitics of Climate Negotiations to be held on Wednesday 27 October at 0900 (BST), 1600 (Singapore) and 1900 (Australian Eastern Standard Time).

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Friday, 15 October, 2021
Presentation of systematic international literature review on professional learning communities

Presentation of systematic international literature review on professional learning communities in the global south - 21 October

On 21 October at 1330 local time in Brussels, Professor Ellen Boeren, CR&DALL core member together with University of Glasgow colleague Dr Thanh Dong Nguyen will be presenting at a webinar concerned with on professional learning communities (PLCs) where the results of their systematic international literature review on PLCs in the global south funded by VVOB will be presented together with practical stories.

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Friday, 15 October, 2021
Educational Peacebuilding | Briefing Paper 5: Medellin's cultural transformation

Educational Peacebuilding | Briefing Paper 5: Medellin's cultural transformation

This briefing summarizes emergent findings from public policy analysis and interviews with 50 citizens of Medellin from a variety of sectors in 2020, many of whom had directly participated in the societal transformation that began during the 1980s. We aim to show that cultural inclusion, democratic and civic culture are crucial aspects of Medellin's cultural transformation.

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Friday, 8 October, 2021
Pre-COP26 Webinar: Higher Education, Knowledge Democracy and Sustainability - October 11, 2021 1500

Pre-COP26 Webinar

We are pleased to announce a webinar on 11 October at 1500 (BST) in which the UNESCO Chair in Chair in Community-based Research & Social Responsibility in Higher Education, is co-operating with the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning (CR&DALL) to present a Pre-COP26 Webinar: Higher Education, Knowledge Democracy and Sustainability.

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Wednesday, 6 October, 2021
Shoulder to Shoulder; Broadening the Men's Shed Movement

New Men's Shed book

Subscribers may wish to consider this new book, Shoulder to Shoulder; Broadening the Men's Shed Movement.

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Tuesday, 5 October, 2021
21st International Conference on Education Research

21st International Conference on Education Research

The Education Research Institute at Seoul National University and the Institute for Innovation and Coexistence Education Research (BK21 FOUR) is holding the ICER (International Conference on Education Research) which will take place online on October 21-22, 2021. The theme of the conference is “Reconceptualizing Education in Times of Global Crisis”.

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Tuesday, 28 September, 2021
Sherwan Ameen arrested in Iraq

Sherwan Ameen, University of Glasgow Master’s in Teaching Adults alumnus imprisoned without trial in Iraq

Sherwan's predicament is part of what has been described by Amnesty International as human rights abuse in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. According to investigations by Amnesty International, ‘In mid-August 2020, widespread protests erupted in the KR-I, mainly in Sulaimaniyah, Duhok and Erbil, demanding an end to corruption, better public services, and the payment of overdue salaries of government employees'.

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Thursday, 23 September, 2021
How good are you at spotting fake news, photos and videos? Bugs, Bees, Plants and the Great Outdoors

How good are you at spotting fake news, photos and videos? Bugs, Bees, Plants and the Great Outdoors.

Explorathon, the Scottish arm of European Researchers’ Night is now running, with online events for all ages. The full programme can be found at this link, and features many events led by the University of Glasgow community, including members of CR&DALL.

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Friday, 17 September, 2021

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