OTB News

News about or related to OTB:

 

Catherine Lido's picture

CR&DALL Seminar Series 2022-23: Everyday Peace: Grassroots responses to conflicts

Mar 13 2023 15:30
Mar 13 2023 19:00
Europe/London
University of Glasgow
Room 234, St Andrew’s Building
Glasgow G3 6NH

This session brings together two projects from the University of Glasgow, School of Education and CR&DALL focussed on Everyday Peace. Presenters: Professor Mo Hume, Dr Avila Kilmurray, Dr Sinead Gormally and Professor Evelyn Arizpe.

Join us to celebrate the Scottish launch of the book Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development and the launch of a short video from the project,  “Educational Peacebuilding in Medellin and Acapulco: Understanding the role of education, culture and learning in responding to crises”.

Josef Konvitz's picture

SAVE THE DATE: 6th OECD Roundtable on Cities and Regions for the SDGs - 20 April 2023

Apr 20 2023 09:30
Apr 20 2023 16:30
Europe/Brussels
*** HYBRID EVENT ***
European Committee of the Regions
99-101 rue Belliard
Belgium  Belgium

The OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) and the European Committee of the Regions are pleased to invite you to the 6th OECD Roundtable on Cities and Regions for the SDGs.

John Tibbitt's picture

Invitation to Policies for Places

‘Place’ has always been one of the priority issues for PASCAL.  Readers may be interested to see the new newsletter Policies for Places being developed by John Tibbitt. It carries essays which explore the implications of a range of policies on the notion of place, including essays on learning and place and learning and urban planning.

John Tibbitt's picture

More than schools and skills - learning as part of urban planning - John Tibbitt

John Tibbitt has recently published this essay which might be of interest to readers. It looks at the relationship between planning urban landscape and the learning landscape in city planning.

Shirley Walters's picture

PIMA's latest Bulletin

The opening paragraph of the PIMA Bulletin for January 2023 states: Ethical adult educators cannot continue to provide the same old curricula as if the very existence of the planet were not in peril: we have a “response-ability” (Sterling and Martin, 2019) to contribute to the struggle for climate justice.

One of the many pressing questions we face is how do we unpick the false assumptions about the separation of humans from the more-than-human world – and why does it matter? In this bulletin we open up conversations on these complex issues.