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Faith and Spirituality-based Learning City Development - Briefing Paper 25

Submitted by Annie Tubadji on March 25, 2024 - 11:59

We are pleased to present the attached Briefing Paper 25 concerned with the work of PASCAL's Learning Cities Network (LCN) on Faith and Spirituality. This LCN is a group of researchers, practitioners and policy makers united by the PASCAL Observatory and working jointly on topics related to faith and spirituality in learning city developments.

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OECD Programme on a Territorial Approach to the SDGs and 7th OECD Roundtable on Cities and Regions for the SDGs

Submitted by Josef Konvitz on March 21, 2024 - 17:08

Subscribers may be interested in the OECD Programme on a Territorial Approach to the SDGs, an ambitious programme to support cities and regions to develop, implement and monitor strategies to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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PASCAL Briefing Paper 24 - Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills Acquisition in Disadvantaged Populations: Evidence from the Nurture thru Nature (NtN) Experiment

Submitted by Radha Jagannathan on March 19, 2024 - 14:06

It is widely acknowledged that public schools in the US have failed to produce sufficient levels of high quality STEM education. The mathematics and science performance of minority and disadvantaged students has been especially troubling with blacks and Hispanics substantially underrepresented in the STEM labor market.

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17th PASCAL conference, July 4th to 6th, 2024 - New Challenges for Higher Education, Cities and Regions: Addressing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in Changing Contexts – Revised Dates for Abstracts

Submitted by Mike Osborne on March 8, 2024 - 11:25

Whilst we have been very pleased with the response that we have had to our call for abstracts for the 17th PASCAL conference in Taipei, a number of colleagues have requested an extension of the deadline. Therefore we are now announcing a new deadline of 1 April 2024 for further abstracts.

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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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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.

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Call for Papers | Special Edition: Australian Journal of Adult Learning Power, policies, and practices in adult literacies

Submitted by Sandra Gee on February 8, 2024 - 18:52

This Special Issue of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning (AJAL) will explore various trends developing at the forefront of literacies in adult education, to consider ways that literacies are being defined and enacted in current times in research and practice. We encourage submissions from around the globe about literacies that relate to these four fields:

  • Critical literacy
  • New literacy studies
  • Multiliteracies
  • Sociocultural approaches to additional language learning in adult education

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Streets, publicness and the public realm | JOHN TIBBITT from Policies for Places

Submitted by John Tibbitt on February 8, 2024 - 18:32

The City of Edinburgh has just announced the beginning of a 3-month consultation on its new transportation plan to help the city achieve its zero-carbon target by 2030. The transport convenor hopes the consultation will reach every ‘nook and cranny’ of the city to hear people’s views and further refine the proposals. The city is one of the most congested in the UK. It also has a fast-growing population with land set aside for an additional 37000 homes. If current transportation patterns continue mobility problems for residents, businesses and visitors can only get worse.

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