Message-ID: <F2A227D74971D111816E00805FD483EB505E7C@MAILSERVER.unesco.org> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 09:08:08 +0200 From: "COMBES, Bernard" <mailto:b.combes@UNESCO.ORG> Subject: TR: CON-NEXUS 03 To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
The following maybe of interest. Bernard Combes> __________________________________________________________________
> Bernard Combes
> Information/Documentation Specialist & Coordinator - Africa Early
> Childhood Projects
> Early Childhood and Family Education Unit (ED/BAS/ECF)
> UNESCO
> 7 Place de Fontenoy
> 75352 Paris 07 SP, France
> tel: 33-1-45680686 fax: 33-1-45685626/27/28
> email: mailto:b.combes@unesco.org
> Internet: http://www.education.unesco.org/educprog/ecf/index.htm
> ________________________________________________________________
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> ---------- CON-NEXUS Online 03 ------------
> CONFINTEA Nexus Online: The Electronic
> CONFINTEA Follow-up Bulletin --------------
> 3rd Issue ---------------------------------
> 12 June 1998 -----------------------------
> Published by ------------------------------
> ------------ UNESCO Institute for Education
> -------------------------------------------
>
> * This electronic newsletter will be published in an informal and flexible
> series to inform about planned, ongoing and completed activities and
> events relating to the follow-up of the CONFINTEA V, the Fifth
> International Conference on Adult Education, Hamburg, 1997.
> * The purpose is to enlarge the information network that has been
> established before and after the conference. Please copy it to
> everybody who might be interested. If you know somebody who would like to
> receive it regularly, let us know the e-mail address, we would be
> delighted
> to send CON-NEXUS-online to them. We hope in this way to strengthen our
> information network.
> **** Send addresses by e-mail to mailto:info.confintea@unesco.org ****
> -------------------------------------
> This information network should also help us to take stock of all
> activities and events resulting from CONFINTEA. We are sure that there is
> more happening than we know. We seek your help regarding information about
> meetings, conferences, publications, initiatives, and other activities.
> **** Send information and news by e-mail to mailto:info.confintea@unesco.org
> ****
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>
> EDUCATION WATCH
> The International Council of Adult Education (ICAE) elaborated a draft
> framework for "Education Watch", a systematic mecanism to assess the
> results of international conferences and their impact on the field of
> adult
> education/adult learning, especially to synthesize commitments made to
> education over the last decade of meetings and to suggest the ways and
> means, the policies, the funds necessary to make these commitments happen.
> Objectives:
> Education Watch will
> 1. call on governments to honour their commitments to education, with
> emphasis on adult education.
> 2. press governments to shape their commitments into systematic plans of
> action.
> 3. create a mechanism for long-term government accountability.
> 4. assess the impact of UN conferences on the state of education.
> 5. monitor and assess the work of non-government sectors in implementing
> educational goals
> 6. work in alliance with a broad base of NGOs.
> ICAE's regional member organization, ASPBAE, has already started its own
> consultation within Asia for a regional framework and implementation.
> For further info on Educational watch contact mailto:icae@web.net
> *************************************
> NEW CONFINTEA HOMEPAGE
> Please have a look at the new CONFINTEA homepage under
> http://www.education.unesco.org/uie/confintea
> Besides its function to disseminate the CONFINTEA documents and to inform
> about follow-up activities, the newly designed homepage will also serve as
> a tool to collect information on planned, ongoing and completed activities
> and events relating to the follow-up of CONFINTEA V. It therefore includes
> an interactive tool: the CONFINTEA V Follow-up Message Board. Through this
> message board news about follow-up activities can be posted by everybody
> from everywhere in the world and thus made immediately available to the
> public. We call upon all friends and collaborators to make intensive use
> of
> this communication and information tool. Note: the old address
> (http://www.education.unesco.org/confintea) is also providing access to
> the
> new homepage.
> ********************************
>
> REGIONS***NEWS FROM THE REGIONS***NEWS FROM THE REGIONS***NEWS FROM THE RE
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>
> AFRICA****
> The Follow-up Workshop in Botswana, May 06, 1998 produced a national Plan
> of Action. It will be circulated to participants and then discussed with
> interested parties before finalisation. Then it will be subbmitted to
> UNESCO NATCOM for monitoring. The idea of an Adult Learner's Week was
> taken
> up enthusiastically and the responsibility given to the Botswana Adult
> Education association.
>
> EUROPE*****
> ESREA (European Society for Research on Education of Adults) 98
> Conference,
> 17-20 September 1998, Bruxelles
> Title: LEARNING TO LIVE IN THE LEARNING SOCIETY: CHALLENGES AND
> CONTRADICTIONS IN ADULT LEARNING
> Themes:
> 1)learning for work: employability, qualifications and the labour market;
> 2)learning in civil society: sociability and active citizenship;
> 3)learning in organizations: flexibility and competencies;
> 4)learning in the life course: access, learning careers and biography.
> For more information on the internet:
> http://www.helsinki.fi/jarj/esrea/esrea98.html
> Contact: mailto:henry@educ.ucl.ac.be
> *************************************
> ISCAE (International Society of Comparative Adult Education) Conference
> Radovljica, September 10-12, 1998
> >From the conference announcement: "We would especially want to encourage
> those colleagues who are entering the field of comparative adult education
> to participate at the conference. ISCAE offers an easy face-to-face
> contact
> with experienced and reputable researchers in the field(...) Not many
> people do comparative work in adult education, so let us come together,
> and
> exchange our knowledge and experiences."
> Registration deadline is July 15, 1998.
> Registration form available from mailto:jasmina.mirceva@acs-saec.si
> **************************************
>
> LATIN AMERICA & CARIBBEAN*****
>
> Popular Education Network of Women (REPEM) in coordination with The Gender
> and Education Office of ICAE(GEO) are organising a Meeting on the
> CONFINTEA
> Follow-up in Latin America and the Carribean (22-25 June, Santa Cruz de la
> Sierra, Bolivia).
> OBJECTIVES:
> 1. To Follow up of the IV Fourth World Conference on Women Platform of
> Action Reccomendation and CONFINTEA V Reccomndations with regard to
> education through a specific focus on gender justice.
> 2.To Follow up , through the Educational Watch , an initiative aiming the
> monitoring of both Beijing and V CONFINTEA implmentation.
> 3. The improvement of the capacity to monitor gender related public
> policies and educatinal programmes,
> ****Details available from: mailto:repem@chasque.apc.org
> ************************************
> CARIBBEAN REGIONAL COUNCIL FOR ADULT EDUCATION - SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
> BARBADOS, MAY 12-16, 1998
> In the wake of workshops on capacity building, environment, literacy and
> basic education, gender, a work programme has been adopted by the
> assembly.
> It has been decided to implement the CONFINTEA Agenda for the Future, to
> intensify studies on the role of the media, education in prison, 'one hor
> a
> day' programmes and the 'adult learning week'. The strengthening of
> cooperation between governments, non-governmental organisations,
> universities, the civil society and private companies is also on the
> agenda
> as well as support to national committees.
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>
> THEMATIC
> FOLLOW-UP*********************************************************
>
> FOLLOW-UP STUDY
> As a follow-up to the CONFINTEA workshop on "The Politics and Policies of
> the Education of Adults in a Globally Transforming Society" the
> International Institute for Policy, Practice and Research in the Education
> of Adults (IPPREA) of Wayne State University, USA was commissioned by UIE
> to carry out a follow-up study to CONFINTEA V. The study represents a
> two-phase project focused on the impact of CONFINTEA V (Phase I), and the
> relationship between the globally transforming society and adult learning
> policies and politics (Phase II.)
> The impact study is focusing on four areas: the role of the participants
> at
> CONFINTEA V and their view on local expected outcomes of CONFINTEA V; the
> assignments and responsibilities of the participants within their
> institutions (governmental and non-governmental); an evaluation part on
> the
> thematic workshops; and on the follow-up activities. A questionnaire is
> being sent out to all CONFINTEA participants. An international team of the
> IPPREA will analyze the questionnaire and prepare a report that should
> help
> to get detailed information about the impact made by CONFINTEA as well as
> about the expectations regarding follow-up activities. The potentials for
> further cooperation in connection with the follow-up will also be
> explored.
> CONFINTEA participants please note: the filled questionnaire should be
> sent
> directly to IPPREA (address see accompanying letter), not to UIE.
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> MINORITY ORGANISATIONS' CONTINUING WORK ON ADULT EDUCATION FROM CONFINTEA
> V
> A number of minority organizations whose representatives attended and
> lobbied at CONFINTEA V are continuing efforts to test out or to convince
> others of the importance of appropriate and inclusive education for all
> communities. Work which is ongoing icludes:
> In India, two projects are going forward. The Rural Litigation and
> Entitlement Kendra, working with the Van Gujjar community will organise a
> number of meetings with that community to report and discuss further the
> ideas exchanged at CONFINTEA V followed by meetings to sensitise key
> members of the majority community to the outcomes. Meanwhile, the Boro
> Women's Justice Forum is organising a series of learning programmes which
> also involve curricular development and documentation of indigenous
> knowledge and culture in specific areas to pilot a methodology for a
> langer
> leaming programme.
> In Kyrgystan, the Kyrgyz Peace Research Centre, is preparing and testing
> pilot curricular materials for two minority communities, with a view to
> widening this to other groups if the initial pilots are successful. The
> content of the materials will focus on minority rights to enable members
> of
> the communities to advocate for their rights more effectively.
> In Nepal, the School of Ecology Agriculture and Community Works is hosting
> a South Asian meeting of minority conununities with some groups who were
> present at Confintea and others who were not attending to share the
> discussions in Hamburg and ensure that they are taken forward.
> In Rwanda, the Association pour la Promotion de la Batwa, has organised a
> pilot adult literacy progranune for members of this marginalised and often
> forgotten conimunity who would otherwise not have access to learning
> opportunities. The eventual aim is, through literacy, to empower the
> members of community to become involved in decisions on development and
> rights to alleviate some of their ongoing difficulties.
> In Senegal, the Association Nationale pur l'Alphabetisation et la
> Formation
> des Adultes, is organising a consultation meeting to inform other groups
> working with minority communities of the outcomes of Confintea V and their
> relevance to the situation in Senegal.
> In Uruguay, Mundo Afro, is organising a series of workshops, and is
> running
> a campaign to raise awareness of the education needs of adult members of
> minority communities in Uruguay and neighbouring countries. This is being
> supported by the documentation of best practice examples and development
> of
> additional curricular materials.
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