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New Challenges for Higher Education, Cities and Regions: Addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in Changing Contexts

Submitted by Mike Osborne on March 4, 2024 - 14:18

Dear LCN participants,

A reminder that today (4 March) is the deadline to submit abstracts to the conference in Taipei, and we hope that a number of you are able to come from the LCNs.

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New Challenges for Higher Education, Cities and Regions: Addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Submitted by Mike Osborne on February 27, 2024 - 13:19

We are pleased to announce that the programme for the 17th PASCAL conference, New Challenges for Higher Education, Cities and Regions: Addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Changing Contexts, is now available, and attached to this posting. The conference runs from 4-6 July in Taipei.

Submission Deadline for Abstracts (details also attached): 4 March 2024;

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PASCAL Briefing Paper 22 - Harnessing Museums, Heritage and Education

Submitted by Catherine Lido on February 27, 2024 - 10:38

We are pleased to publish PASCAL Briefing Paper 22, entitled Harnessing Museums, Heritage and Education. PASCAL’s Learning Cities Network (LCN) on Harnessing Museums, Heritage and Education builds upon our prior Special Interest Group in cultural heritage and literacy inclusion, to now combine rich museum theory with innovative field-based practices. We engage with diverse stakeholders, including universities, world-leading museum and heritage sites, and governmental stakeholders, to address increasing needs for more informed, strategic and entrepreneurial professionals within the cultural heritage sector, and dialogical spaces for knowledge exchange on inclusive cultural literacy and practice.

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How Can Urban Studies Enrich Urban Education in the U.S.? | The Urban Lens Newsletter

Submitted by Bob Gleeson on February 19, 2024 - 10:18

Last week Bill Bowen discussed the fact that the topic of K-12 education in low-income urban areas is almost never addressed by researchers who identify themselves as urban studies scholars.  Even though the field of urban studies is broadly conceived and interdisciplinary, when he and several colleagues conducted in-depth interviews several years ago with leading urban researchers and examined the content of the most frequently used urban studies textbooks, they found little overlap with the topic of urban education.

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DECODE Project - a call for case studies

Submitted by Rajesh Tandon on February 17, 2024 - 11:58

The UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education in collaboration with the Knowledge for Change Consortium are pleased to share information on a new and exciting project designed to generate evidence of the impact on policy or practice of community and Indigenous-led research.