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UNESCO Chair - GACER News - Febuary 5, 2013

Greetings Friends,

First thank you all so very much for your support in getting information about the GUNi Call for Good Practices out last week; the deadline has been extend to February 10.  With your help the number of 'good practices' has more than doubled from around 45 to 94 as of today. There is still a need to receive short student videos and there is an opportunity to present posters as well.

Scenario Planning for Scotland 2025 - a world-leading learning nation

The reports from a programme of work by Scotland's Future Forum and the Goodison Group in Scotland were launched at a gathering in the Scottish Parliament on 4th February.   The programme had involved a series of seminars, roundtable discussions and workshops with a wide range of stakeholder groups across all stages of education, business, the voluntary sector and young people to provide an evidence base.  PASCAL had participated in a workshop bringing together international perspectives as part of this process. 

PASCAL Welcomes Addis Ababa to PIE

The PIE stimulus paper on Addis Ababa, written by Professor Ezana  Amdework, Chair of the Department of Sociology, Addis Ababa University, is the fifth stimulus paper on African cities and joins stimulus papers for Dar es Salaam, Kampala, Dakar, and Gaborone. In their cumulative impact they provide broad insights into the critical challenge of building sustainable learning cities in Africa.

Addis Ababa Stimulus Paper

The history of urbanization in Ethiopia goes back centuries. Archeological and historical evidences show the existence of cities since the Aksumite period. Despite its long history, however, the process of urban development in Ethiopian is known for its extremely slow and sporadic progress (Mesfin 1976). This is in part a result of the fact that pre-twentieth century Ethiopian urbanization was intimately linked with political capitals. After the abandonment of Aksum as a capital, Ethiopian kings have for centuries practiced a tradition of roving capitals because of political, military, and environmental reasons (Assefa 1993:275). Menilik’s decision to make Addis Ababa a permanent capital represented an end to this longstanding practice.

UNESCO Chair - GACER News - January 17, 2013

A few conference alerts and other items people have passed to us. Hope you are well. We are particularly keen that you and your colleagues put in a proposal in to share your innovative practices and take part in the Barcelona event.  This will be the only event in the coming years with a global mandate and a focus on Knowledge, Transformation and Higher Education.  PLEASE pass this on to others in your networks.

Thank you

Rajesh Tandon and Budd L Hall

Co-Chairs

From Ivory Tower to Public Square: Democracy and the Engaged University - GACER News - January 14

Just jumping onto a fine talk given by our friend Andrew Petter, President of the Vancouver, Canada based Simon Fraser University.  Andrew was an important voice at Uvic for its 'engagement' agenda and then moved into full speed once named as President of SFU supporting a move that included branding SFU as "The Engaged University"

His opening speech at the recent World University Forum is titled "From Ivory Tower to Public Square: Democracy and the Engaged University"…worth a read!

UNESCO Chair-GACER News-January 12, 2013

Powerful social movements have emerged and continue to deepen and expand over the past several months.  In India the movement against violence against women and for a new relationship between men and women has grown out of the outrage towards the brutal rape and mindless assault of the young woman in New Delhi and has found resonance around the world.

PASCAL Welcomes Shanghai to PIE

The PIE stimulus paper on Shanghai by Professor Jian Huang (School of Education Science, East China Normal University) is appropriately titled Towards a Learning Society Experience and Reflections from Shanghai. The paper traces steps taken by Shanghai from 1999 to set in place a policy framework for a learning society linked to long term planning for education reform.

Shanghai Stimulus Paper

This paper analyzes the social background including the factors of history, economy and population, and the huge demands for a learning society. It makes a brief review of the indigenous efforts and achievements from six aspects of construction a learning society in Shanghai. Finally based on a theoretical analytic framework it gives reflection on Shanghai’s experience through four perspectives, i.e. learning value, learning system integration, driving force mechanism, and learning function.

UNESCO Chair-GACER News-January 7

Some of you will have seen the policy paper European League of Research Universities recommendations for Europe's Horizon 2020, written for the  League of European Research Universities designed to make the case for research funding for the Humanities and Social Sciences within the European Commissions' Horizon 2020 research and Innovation framework 

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14th PASCAL International Observatory Conference - South Africa

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