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The Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre gears up for national conference in March
The knowledge centre’s first annual conference will be held in Edmonton on March 7–9, 2007. This national event will bring together Aboriginal people from across the country. Participants will engage in a dialogue on the diverse perspectives of lifelong learning and discuss the results of an earlier workshop, which explored how to develop a more holistic approach to measurement in order to recognize all aspects of lifelong learning that impact the individual and collective well-being of Aboriginal communities.
The workshop on Feb. 8–9, 2007, conducted by CCL and the Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre, in partnership with the National Aboriginal Organizations (NAO) in Canada, examined how to redefine learning success for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. The two-day workshop brought together Aboriginal learning professionals, community practitioners, researchers and analysts to initiate the development of three distinct holistic lifelong learning models to measure learning progress for First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities.
The specific objectives of the workshop were to:
To register for the conference, please contact Genevieve Fox, coordinator of the Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre.
Call for articles for CCL's Journal of Applied Research on Learning
The Canadian Council on Learning is pleased to invite submissions for its online peer-reviewed publication, the Journal of Applied Research on Learning (JARL). Authors of original applied research interested in submitting manuscripts to be considered for publication in JARL should review the Aims of the Journal of Applied Research on Learning, the Call for Submissions, as well as the Guidelines for Authors for detailed information on submission requirements.
JARL is intended to address topics that, while focussed on examples of applied research on learning, will offer readers relevant theoretical discussions and act as a catalyst for expanding existing knowledge in specific areas of practice and/or research on learning relevant to the Canadian context. The journal will be available through CCL's website as a free publication containing material written in both French and English. JARL will be published twice annually as a summer/fall issue and a winter/spring issue. The first issue will be published in spring 2007.
We invite you to circulate this announcement to colleagues, graduate students, researchers and/or organizations who may be interested in submitting a manuscript to JARL for consideration. The deadline for submissions of manuscripts for the next issue of JARL is March 30, 2007.
Questions can be addressed to the editorial staff of JARL.
The Adult Learning Knowledge Centre calls for knowledge exchange projects
CCL's Adult Learning Knowledge Centre is issuing a call for knowledge exchange projects aimed at groups, organizations and institutes across Canada involved in adult learning activities. It is designed to foster knowledge exchange initiatives related to the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre's targeted areas for 2006–2007: literacy, seniors' learning, arts and culture, and prior learning assessment and recognition. The knowledge centre is particularly interested in supporting small initiatives with a cost of under $5,000. Applications must be received by Feb. 28, 2007.
Reminder: RFPs for research on structured learning and adult learning
CCL currently has two calls for proposals for applied research conducted in Canada. Interested community-based organizations, businesses, labour organizations, and research and academic institutions are invited to submit research projects in structured learning by midnight on Feb. 16, 2007 (PST). Those interested in responding to the RFP for research projects on adult learning are invited to respond to this request by midnight on April 16, 2007 (PST).
Reminder: RFP for researcher-in-residence program issued by CCL
CCL's Researcher-in-Residence program is designed to encourage new research initiatives that have learning as their principal focus and increase Canada's capacity to conduct important research on learning. Non-profit organizations interested in participating in this program are invited to send their submissions by midnight March 16, 2007 (PST).
Events
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