Presentations:
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Ron Faris, Truo N.S. and Learning Community Symposium
Ron Faris, delivered an excellent paper on Oct 4th, 2007 Truro, Nova Scotia http://membrs.shaw.ca/rfaris
A Learning Community:
Places learning at the heart of community capacity building and development;
Increases pathways between the formal learning (education) sector and the non-formal (workplace, community and not-for-profit) sectors through active partnerships;
Fosters early learning and literacy, including learning how to learn, as the foundations of a lifelong learning strategy;
Values and uses existing learning resources but seeks to identify new ways of doing things;
Provides a practical approach to lifelong learning for individuals and communities facing the challenges of our knowledge-based economy and society;
Promotes social inclusion and makes it easy for all people to learn and continue learning, in a variety of ways;
Uses and builds human and social capital, including the multicultural values and knowledge base of aboriginals as well as recent immigrants.
Learning Communities Symposium (October 3 & 4, 2007)
Citizenship Education: www.ns.literacy.ca/symposium/index.htm
Learning communities are incubators of democratic citizenship where democratic values and skills are learned in homes, schools, voluntary associations and faith communities. In learning communities, civic literacy and learning are constantly informed, refreshed and sustained by conversation and action about democratic rights and responsibilities.Health Promotion
Health literacy, including preventative public health initiatives, workplace safety, and nutritious food security, is central to forging healthy families, schools, workplaces, and communities. Learning communities systematically foster a sense of meaning and belonging.Social/Cultural Development
Learning communities are based on the consensus that good social capital builds bonds and bridges within and between communities and should be fostered as a means of building community capacity, promoting social inclusion, and enhancing human capital development.
Economic Development
Learning communities are prepared to pro-actively meet ever-changing economic conditions because of their awareness of the socio-economic and technological drivers of the emerging knowledge-based economy and society. Sustainable community economic development, or economic literacy, requires both individual and organizational learning. “Glocalization”, where systems and structures change to meet local conditions, becomes an alternative to merely reacting to forces of globalization.
Environmental Sustainability
Learning communities foster learning, action and informed conversation about local environmental issues and global ecological challenge
Rural/Urban Development
Learning communities are a form of learning-based community development. They build bridges between First Nation and non-First Nation communities in both rural and urban settings. They foster rural-urban collaboration rather than the existing ‘silo' thinking that encourages a false rural-urban dichotomy and subsequent policy and program failure.
LEARNING COMMUNTIES: Web of Life, Literacy & Learning
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