Mostrando mensaje 614     < Anterior | Siguiente > Responder a este mensaje Asunto: [generourban] ICAE Fecha: Jueves, 27 de Mayo, 2004  11:56:17 (-0300) Autor: laredva <laredva @.........uy> Instituto de Formación denominado "ICAE Academy of Lifelong Learning Advocacy" El Consejo Internacional de Educación de Personas Adultas (ICAE), cuya Secretaría General tiene sede en Montevideo, Uruguay, tiene el agrado de invitarles a presentarse al llamado para el Instituto de Formación denominado "ICAE Academy of Lifelong Learning Advocacy" a realizarse del 29 de Julio al 19 de Agosto, 2004, en Buskerud Folk High School, Noruega. Este curso de tres semanas de duración tiene como objetivo construir un equipo global conformado por líderes emergentes en aprendizaje a lo largo de la vida y activistas de movimientos sociales. El objetivo es que adquieran las habilidades para hacer advocacy y apoyar el aprendizaje de personas adultas para la ciudadanía activa y la inclusión, y que tengan la capacidad de actuar en los diferentes procesos de decisión a nivel nacional, regional y global, así como en los grandes espacios de decisión, tales como las Naciones Unidas, la OMC, el FSM, etc, a la vez que desarrollen vínculos con los grandes temas de la globalización que actualmente afectan el mundo. El curso apunta a personas que reúnan los siguientes requisitos: - experiencia en advocacy, - activismo en el campo de la educación de personas adultas y de movimientos sociales, - graduados o con formación similar y estudiantes avanzados, - manejo fluido del inglés (el curso será dictado en inglés, no habrá traducción) y - disponibilidad para asistir todo el curso (del 29 de julio al 19 de agosto). Se dará prioridad a líderes jóvenes. Estamos previendo la participación de 40 líderes de todas las regiones, manteniendo un balance regional y de género. Se adjunta el formulario de solicitud, las bases y el programa, en idioma inglés, pero también se puede acceder a los mismos a través de nuestra pagina web: www.icae.org.uy El plazo para presentar las solicitudes vence: 15 de junio, 2004 Agradecemos la difusión de esta información a posibles interesad@s y ante cualquier duda dirigirse a: Marcela Hernández secretariat@icae.org.uy Saludos Celita Eccher ICAE International Council for Adult Education General Secretariat CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Course overview Date:           July 29  August 19, 2004 Place:  Buskerud Folk High School, Buskerud, Norway. Cost:           USD 2,000  (board, lodging, tuition costs) + airfare cost                 Note: Upon selection, a notification letter shall be sent to you                       in case you need it for  the institution where you are applying                       for a scholarship. Organized by:   ICAE  International Council for Adult Education Accredited by:   ICAE  International Council for Adult Education Supported by: - Buskerud Folk High School  Norway - The Norwegian Association for Adult Education (VOFO) - Norway - Municipality of Norway  Norway - NIACE  - United Kingdom - The Swedish National Council for Adult Education  - Sweden - IIZ - DVV  - Germany - The European Commission has authorized the National Agencies to regard the event as a training course for which grants may be awarded in the framework of Grundtvig 3 Objective: The aim of this three-week intensive session is to give emerging leaders in adult learning and social movement activists the opportunity to empower themselves and acquire the skills to advocate for and support adult learning for active citizenship. Our objective is to help them generate a broader vision of adult education and lifelong learning within the framework of human rights, developing linkages with the most important globalization issues that are currently affecting the world. Requirements The program is open to applicants who meet the following requirements: -       advocacy experience -       activism in the adult learning and social movement’s field -       graduates or equivalent education or advanced students -       priority shall be given to young leaders -       ability to communicate (oral and writing skills) effectively and fluently in English. (No translation will be available) -       availability to attend the whole course (from July 29 to August 19) Application form and supporting documents Applicants should submit the following documents: -       Application form -       Curriculum vitae (not more than 4 pages) -       2 referee letters of recommendation Application form  and curriculum vitae (not more than 4 pages)  should be submitted as follows: -       One electronic copy to secretariat@icae.org.uy -       One hard copy to the following address:          ICAE - Acevedo Díaz 1600 apto. 1002, Montevideo 11200, Uruguay Letters of recommendation from two referees should be sent directly from the referees to the Selection Committee, to the following address: ICAE - Acevedo Díaz 1600 apto. 1002, Montevideo 11200, Uruguay Or by Fax: (598-2) 401 00 06 Please note: Application forms, curriculum vitae or letters of recommendation which are hand-written, incomplete, submitted after deadline, or which are not in English language, will not be accepted. Deadline for receipt of applications and supporting documents June 15, 2004 Notification The date on which the Selection Committee plans to announce the applicants that have been shortlisted is:    June 30, 2004 General Objectives To build the skills of educators and social movement activists in supporting adult learning for change, and to consolidate ICAE as a global network committed to that end, through an annual residential program on advocacy for adult learning. Specific Objectives 1. To generate a broader vision on adult education within the framework of human rights, developing linkages with the most important globalization issues that are currently affecting the world. 2. To support the emergence of a new leadership for the global network of adult educators, and to secure the regeneration of ICAE. 3. To build networking capacity, the formation of new leaderships committed and trained to work as a global team, and committed to working through ICAE. 4. To establish a working group for reflection upon the process and the conceptual and thematic analysis. Principles The definition of the contents take into account the new learning needs emerging from the current global context. At a time in which the current globalizing model is characterized by economic uncertainty, population displacement, war, the advance of fundamentalisms, the difficulties regarding multilateralism, and the greater interdependence in relation to all global policies affecting unequally the countries of the world, there is a pressing need to rethink deeply and critically the educational proposals at formal and informal levels, at all ages. There is also a need to have an ethical approach within the framework of Human Rights and to develop teamwork capacity and skills at global level, instead of repeating what has been done for the past decades, which fostered competitiveness and individual work, and which does not allow to generate responses to extremely complex situations like the ones we are living. Today it is no longer possible to think of a super team of a sole country, able to account for global situations. Today it is necessary to cultivate international teamwork, which would be able to recognize differences and generate synergies among this diversity of visions and skills, and which would have the capacity of generating new solutions and the subsequent advocacy for promoting change in the public policies at all levels: that is to say, the exercise of active citizenship at all levels of action, local and global. We must generate an agile and proactive attitude in the participants, taking into account the unprecedented changing global times, whether participating in a campaign, whether promoting a research and other activities which could be fostered from global to local levels. The education currently imparted is notoriously outdated so as to respond to these new situations. Methodology ·       The format will allow the harmonization of pedagogical progression and the learning process ·       Alternation of complementary methodological proposals such as lectures, courses, workshops. ·       Conceptual inputs of theoretical analysis will be combined with practical experiences, specially those of the participants and the host country: “learning from diversity” ·       Special attention will be given to group dynamics, and work with the participants; group dynamics is part of the learning process. ·       Students will have possibility of living together with several senior education leaders and thinkers, with an appropriate regional balance P R O G R A M WEEK 1 Convenor: Sergio Haddad Civil society World Social Forum; civil society engagement with UN major policy conferences; and the influence exerted by new movements of the civil society such as peace movements, women’s movement, and environmental movements. The proposal of this first week is to discuss the concept of civil society; the fight for and recognition of individual and collective rights; economic, social, cultural and environmental rights  SCER; the forms of articulation of civil society on the international stage; the history of action, both at the UN conferences and at the manifestations in Seattle, Prague, Genoa and at the World Social Forum; the discussion of perspectives and the nature of the alter-globalization movement and its educational meaning.  Civil Society -       Discussion on the concept of civil society -       Main actors, collective action, social movements and networks  civil society in movement State, Civil Society and Rights -       Struggle of civil society to constitute and implement Human Rights in the light of Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights. -       Rights to equality and rights to difference -       Education as a human right Globalization and resistance -       Action on the international stage  forms, limitations and differences with regard to the national stage -       UN world conferences -       Civil society action -       From Seattle to Porto Alegre  globalization of resistance and struggles World Social Forum and Perspectives of the Movement -       Impacts of  WSF -       Perspectives of the internationalization of the process -       the action of civil society as an educational process WEEK 2 Convenor: Paul Belanger Challenging Globalization Impact through Lifelong Learning The Global and Local Situation of the Right to Learn - Britten Mansson-Wallin -       Achievements and gaps (UNESCO 2002 report on the situation of the adults’ right to learn), -       The ambiguous recognition of this “absolute UN priority” on Education For All: Jomtien 1990, CONFINTEA 1997, Dakar 2000,  The Millennium Development Goals 2000-2015, -       The present significance of this situation for women and men having to participate actively on all fronts to protect and improve their conditions of life (ICAE Report). Globalization and the Uncertain Governance of Education at World and Regional Levels -       Globalization: its central character: global free market, uneven development and growing gaps between nations and social groups. -       Globalization of learning environments, -       The agenda of multilateral organisations on lifelong learning and their impact: WB, WTO, OECD, EC, UNESCO, regional bodies. The Global and Regional Theatre for Action (bridging with theme 3 on Advocacy) -       WSF -       UN and UNESCO -       The space and strategies for changes in relation with other social movements -       The role of regional and global networks in the present context WEEK 3 Convenor: Gigi Francisco Active Citizenship and Strategies for Advocacy Structural, Conjunctural and Intersectional Analysis: re-Visiting. The objective of this session on globalization is to synthesize learning by facilitating the participants’ own critique of their consciousness raising techniques and methodologies, from a consideration of recent theoretical insights and action reflection arising from the following challenges: (1)     human rights framework (civil-political; economic, cultural & social rights) (2)     sustainable development (bio-diversity, production-consumption, lifestyles) (3)     intersection of gender, race & class (equity / justice) (4)     identity and sexual politics (cultures) This will lead to the identification of areas where transformation of adult education can/should take: (1)     How are we addressing these challenges in our adult education work? (2)     Are we able to integrate our efforts or do our efforts run parallel to one another (i.e. modules focused on specific concerns)? (3)     What capacities do we need to develop as adult educators so that we can effectively integrate these new challenges into our work? Shifting spaces and politics in a period of uncertainty? (transnationalised politics and war): national, regional and international The objective of this session on civil society responses is  to synthesize learning by mapping out the terrain for social movement participation and advocacy at national, regional and international spheres taking into account the following: (1)     Who are old actors? What changes have they undergone? (2)     Who are new actors? What perspectives / advocacies do they bring? (3)     What are new processes and tensions arising from encounter between old and new actors? From the mapping exercise, identify the following: (1)     What new strategies have emerged or are emerging? (2)     What new leadership forms and styles have emerged or are emerging? (3)     What new ethics of engagement have emerged or are emerging? Collective construction of a new thinking for popular action The session objective is to facilitate participants’ further reflection on context, complexity and the world, and to engage them into a visioning of a new thinking for popular action. It requires activities that will sharpen participants’ understanding of the meaning of transformation in relation to: (1)     Cultural Diversity (Vision of Life from Culture) International Understanding (Toward global citizenship?) (2)     Local (distinctive)-global (shared) norms (New legal paradigm?) (3)     Local-global actions (New Politics) The session hopes to produce a list of elements under these four categories: (1)     information (2)     knowledge (3)     understanding (4)     values & ethics Strategic advocacy for education (Part 1) The session is intended to present an overview of strategic planning for advocacy and to guide the participants through the stages  and steps in strategic advocacy planning. The output is an Advocacy Plan for (1) internal and (2) external advocacy. (1)     Given our three-day deepening & synthesis, what is the advocacy agenda in popular education (internal  toward civil society and external  toward governments/institutions)? (2)     What strategies can we use? (3)     Advocacy Plan. Strategic advocacy for education (Part 2) (4)     Implementation Blueprint for the Advocacy Plan (5)     Monitoring and Evaluation of the Advocacy Plan LA RED VA... REPEM ATENCION NUEVA DIRECCION Acevedo Diaz 1600 apto. 1002 11200 Montevideo - Uruguay Tel/fax: ++5982 4080089 - 4010006 E-mail: laredva@repem.org.uy WEB: www.repem.org.uy