You are invited to attend our upcoming learning webinar on Digital Principles for Development in partnership with Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) and GCE on February 25th, 2022, at 4.00pm SAST.

The purpose of the learning workshop in partnership with DIAL who will be to introduce their work and cover the 9 digital principles for development for an in depth understanding. The nine principles are a set of living guidance intended to help practitioners succeed in applying digital technologies to development programs.

Digital Principles for Development

February 25th 2022 4:00pm SAST/9.00am ET

The purpose of the learning webinar in partnership with DIAL, is to build capacity for participating individuals from national coalitions, and including those from the African countries participating in the GIZ scoping study, about the principles for digital development. The desired outcome would be to help the participating individuals contextualise the digital principles for development in the education sector.

We invite you to a participatory workshop that asks:

Climate Just Pedagogy – what lessons have we learned?

Over the last eighteen months PIMA, in collaboration with the Canadian Association for Studies in Adult Education (CASAE), Adult Learning Australia (ALA) and Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in Education of Adults (SCUTREA), has led a series of Climate Justice and Adult Learning and Education (ALE) webinars and has produced a special edition of the its PIMA Bulletin 39 (Nov 21) which captures climate justice themes and gives examples. With recurrent intensified climate events, yet no apparent sense of urgency in many regions, we wish to deepen the dialogue and educational actions.

Co-hosted by PIMA, CASAE, ALA, MOJA, SCUTREA Invitation to Virtual Workshop

Date: 2 March 2022

Time: PDT 8am (Vancouver); 16:00 BST (London, UK); 17:00 CAT/CEST (Harare, Berlin); 20:30 IST (India); 03:00 AEDT on 3 March (Sydney) Length: 2 hours

The PIMA Bulletin No 39 will serve as the common reference text for discussions. We will assume this has been read. https://drive.google.com/drive...

Please register in advance for this event:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlfuisrzMiGtDTMOEXNG-RsMA5jaqaSVcx

Co-host contacts:

PIMA: www.pimanetwork.com

CASAE: https://www.casae-aceea.ca/ ALA: https://ala.asn.au/

MOJA: https://www.mojaafrica.net/en/ SCUTREA: http://www.scutrea.ac.uk/ ;

CONFINTEA VII will take place in Morocco in June 2022. This event focuses on the effectiveness of adult learning and education policies within the overall framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNESCO member States are encouraged to develop and implement policies, incentives, regulatory frameworks and institutional structures in support of adult education provision and delivery that could build human rights, social justice and sustainability.

The main focus of CONFINTEA VII is the development of a new framework for action on adult learning and education. This new framework will replace the Belem Framework for Action (BFA) which was adopted at CONFINTEA VI.

TAP on TAPAS:

The Alternatives Project

WEBINAR: There are Plenty of Alternatives!

February 3

10:30 EST / 15:30 GMT-UTC

Zoom Meeting (2 hours) Translation in French and Spanish

REGISTRATION REQUIRED:

https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYud-2qrjovHtHFgPhnZ6XpBuWruHXNklId

We live on a bountiful planet filled with extraordinary human beings but facing some truly existential crises – COVID, climate change and environmental destruction, virulent poverty and inequality, rampant racism and sexism, and widespread war and conflict, to name some. These crises are systemic, built into structures of capitalism, patriarchy, racism, ableism, and more. But this is not a time for despair, this is a time for alternatives! Contrary to Margaret Thatcher's TINA, There is No Alternative, David Bollier coined the acronym TAPAS, There are Plenty of Alternatives. In this webinar, we at The Alternatives Project bring together five other organizations to share, celebrate, and discuss their outstanding work in examining, fostering, and enhancing global efforts to find education, social, economic, and political alternatives to transform dysfunctional and destructive existing systems. PLEASE JOIN US!

CHAIR AND PANELIST

CAROL ANNE SPREEN | THE ALTERNATIVES PROJECT

TAP is a diverse, transnational collective of progressive academics, union members, civil society activists, and social movement participants concerned with building a global collective critical voice oriented towards education and societal transformation.

PANELISTS

FRANCO AUGUSTO | REEVO

REEVO is an international collective project that since 2012 promotes the collaborative construction of knowledge and networks about alternatives to learning and unconventional educational experiences from a critical, collaborative, open, and non-commercial perspective.

UDI MANDEL | ECOVERSITIES

Ecoversities is about learners and communities reclaiming diverse knowledges, relationships, and imaginations to design new approaches to higher education.

AMANDA JANOO | WEAll WELLBEING ECONOMY ALLIANCE

WEAll is a collaboration of organizations, alliances, movements, and individuals working towards a well-being economy, delivering human and ecological well-being.

GAR ALPEROVITZ | THE NEXT SYSTEM PROJECT

The Next System Project is an initiative of The Democracy Collaborative aimed at bold thinking and action to address the systemic challenges we face now and in coming decades, functioning as a research and development lab for political-economic alternatives.

ASHISH KOTHARI | GLOBAL TAPESTRY OF ALTERNATIVES

The Global Tapestry of Alternatives seeks to build bridges between networks of Alternatives around the globe and promote the creation of new processes of confluence.

MOJA invites adult educators to a conversation with Astrid von Kotze, adult educator and activist. Astrid is and education activist working with organisations and people in poor working class communities in/around Cape Town, South Africa. Until 2009, she was Professor of Adult Education and Community Development at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, subsequently professor emerita at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Astrid has been deeply involved in cultural activism, and published widely on popular education, health and sustainable livelihood security.

In the conversation with Astrid, we will focus on the topic of Adult Education for Resilience? COVID-19-induced pondering for practice.

Resilience has become a buzzword ‘touted as a protective talisman against the effects of trauma, which individuals, communities and whole economies are told to cultivate. ‘ (Saner 2020) It has taken on the quality of moral virtue with ‘resourcefulness’ reframed as praise for one’s ability to continually adapt (Ames & Greer 2021). In this way, resilience is akin to the aspiration for education for ‘sustainable development’, a continuation of the same-old, with slight adjustments.

The questions are: what does ‘resilience’ mean? Should adult education go with the same-old? What are community/adult educators’ assumptions, and how do they relate to the realities of learner / participants on the ground? What ideas should be dropped, and what imaginings be taken on now, for the future? What are new ways of shaping adults educating and learning, in a (post-) Covid-era?

This webinar will critically examine notions of ‘resilience’, spotlight some of our assumptions about ALE, and propose a a life-affirming adult education for the future.

On 12 and 13 October 2021, EPALE is hosting its annual Community Conference, which will be held entirely online. The conference will provide an opportunity to discuss how adult education and learning can help reshape our society, promoting inclusive and sustainable models.

The pandemic has exposed and exacerbated vulnerabilities in our globalised and interconnected world, with profound and long-lasting effects. Fast-paced changes on multiple levels – digital, demographic, and environmental – have been the norm in recent times. In this context, the conference revolves around the concept of transition. Transitions are full of uncertainty and instability, but being inherently transformative, they also provide an extraordinary opportunity to sketch out new models, paying particular attention to the challenge of not leaving anyone behind.

The conference’s plenary sessions (public events available to view via the EPALE platform) will be split across two days.

But the conference doesn't end here!

Far from it! The following week, on the 18 and 19 October, the conference will continue, opening the stage for collaborative discussions. Participants will have the opportunity to have their say, taking part in four participatory workshops to be attended upon registration.

The EPALE Community Conference will also host 8 national panels to allow participants to deepen and discuss national priorities and practices… in national languages.

The full agenda will be available soon on this page.