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The
Initiative is a transnational programme to synthesize the best of research
and development into the nature of human learning, and to examine its
implications for education, work and the development of communities worldwide.
Activities
and Partner Organizations
- State
of the World Forum 2000: Convening the Community of Stakeholders.
As the process of globalization unfolds, an increasing number of stakeholders
are attempting to enter the dialogue concerning global governance. This
is a challenge of historic dimensions, requiring unprecedented sensitivity
and respect for the viewpoints of all parties.
- Syllabus
for the Biology of Learning: The Illinois Mathematics
and Science Academy.
- Curriculum
for a Training Program. Introduction to the work of the Initiative
for the Hammersmith and Fulham Primary Headteachers' Course (1999-2000)
- Results
of the Hammersmith and Fulham Training Program.
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Leeds,
England -- Leeds Education 2000 is working to take the ideas and
concepts of the Initiative and put them into action in a real community.
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Canada
-- A group of Canadian educators, policy makers, and business and
foundation leaders are taking the ideas of the Initiative and using
them to create real change in the way young people are taught and
prepared for adult responsibilities.
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Estonia
-- John Abbott, President of the Initiative, is working with a group
of Estonians in "Conducting an open discussion on Estonia's education
alternatives: Estonian Education Scenarios 2015."
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Winona
(MN) -- A group within Winona is actively working to develop a
true learning community that integrates the formal sector of schools
into the larger life of the community.
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Shikshantar:
The Peoples' Institute for Rethinking Education and Development
-- in their own words, " a non-profit applied research institute committed
to working with peoples throughout the [Indian] sub-continent to:
1) challenge and dismantle the existing monopoly system of factory-schooling
in India; and 2) construct complex shared visions of Lifelong Societal
Learning that lead to the creation of diverse open learning communities."
- TechKnowLogia
is published bimonthly on the Internet in collaboration with UNESCO,
OECD and GIIC. It provides policy makers, strategists, practitioners
and technologists at the local, national and global levels with a strategic
forum to share policies, strategies, experiences and tools in harnessing
technologies for knowledge dissemination, effective learning, and efficient
education services. It also reviews systematically the latest systems
and products of technologies of today, and peeks into the world of tomorrow.
- New
Horizons for Learning offers numerous articles, contacts and links
for those interested in issues related to K-12 education.
- World
Education is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the
lives of the poor through economic and social development programs.
We provide training and technical assistance in nonformal education
for adults and children, with special emphasis on income generation,
small enterprise development, literacy, education for the workplace,
environmental education, reproductive health, maternal and child health,
HIV/AIDS education, and refugee orientation. Projects are designed to
contribute to individual growth, as well as to community and national
development.
- Teachers
Without Borders is a non-profit, non-denominational corporation/public
foundation devoted to global educational change at the high-school level
for an information age. We create an appropriate match between worldwide
research on learning with effective, personalized educational solutions
at the local level.
- The
OECD groups 29 member countries in an organisation that, most importantly,
provides governments a setting in which to discuss, develop and perfect
economic and social policy. They compare experiences, seek answers to
common problems and work to co-ordinate domestic and international policies
that increasingly in today's globalised world must form a web of even
practice across nations. Their exchanges may lead to agreements to act
in a formal way - for example, by establishing legally-binding codes
for free flow of capital and services, agreements to crack down on bribery
or to end subsidies for shipbuilding. But more often, their discussion
makes for better informed work within their own governments on the spectrum
of public policy and clarifies the impact of national policies on the
international community. And it offers a chance to reflect and exchange
perspectives with other countries similar to their own.
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21st
Century Learning Initiative
http://www.21learn.org
mail@21learn.org
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