Building 21st century Learning Cities and Regions

Norman Longworth, Visiting Professor of Lifelong Learning, University of Stirling

Building 21st Century Learning Regions

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EnvironmentalIndustrial

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Human

Intellectual

CulturalCommunity

Educational

Driver 1 – More Complexity

Building 21st Century Learning Regions

Driver 1 – More Complexity

Driver 2 – more change more rapid

Building 21st Century Learning Regions

21st Century Learning Cities and Regions

Labourer - statistician - student -teacher - systems analyst -salesman - project manager -education developer -administrator in a professional association - university professor - consultant - lecturer.

Driver 1 – More Complexity

Driver 2 – more change more rapid

Driver 3 - More uncertainty

Building 21st Century Learning Regions

Building 21st Century Learning Regions

'Everyone will need to be educated to the standard of semi-literacy of the average university graduate by the year 2000.

This is the minimum survival level of the human race'

Arthur C Clarke (1963)

Building 21st century learning regions

Driver 1 – More Complexity

Driver 2 – more change more rapid

Driver 3 - More uncertainty

Driver 4 – More Learning (Lifelong)

Building 21st Century Learning Regions

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- out and out focus on the needs and demands of the learner

- Giving the learner a true ownership of his/her own learning

- Using the tools and techniques of Lifelong Learning

- personal learning plans, - personal requirements audits , - mentoring programmes, - access to electronic networks , - learning counsellors etc

Building 21st Century Learning Regions

The Finnish National Lifelong Learning Strategy Document

‘The Joy of Learning’

Building 21st Century Learning Regions

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Cities and regions in a globalized world cannot afford not to become learning cities and regions. It is a matter of prosperity, stability, employability and the personal well-being of all citizens

European Commission Policy Paper on the Local and Regional Dimension of Lifelong Learning (N Longworth author)

Building 21st Century Learning Regions

A Learning City/Region definition

A Learning City or Region

A place with plans and strategies to encourage

personal growth,

social cohesion

and sustainable wealth-creation

through the development of the human potential of all its citizens

and the social, financial and cultural potential of its institutions and organisations

One major objective of regional management is to develop a means by which educational and other organizations have a common purpose. –each one learning from each other and each one learning with each other – in planning and implementing social and economic innovations.

When this happens societies are able to innovate because they have the capacity for collective learning about how to develop new knowledge and, in particular, practical ‘know-how’ type of knowledge.

CEDEFOP Study of Learning Regions

Building 21st Century Learning Regions

‘Cities and Regions must respond to the effects of Globalisation and the Knowledge Society by becoming Learning Cities and Learning Regions, if they are to remain prosperous and stable’

OECD Learning Regions Project Report

Building 21st Century Learning Regions

•While tertiary education remains important, secondary education appears to be the most important for regional economic performance . Higher Education is clearly essential in terms of innovati ons, but secondary education instils the intermediary skills, which are also crucial to the new industria l know-how and ‘learning-by-doing’.

•High levels of individual learning in themselves do not contribute to economic growth before it has bee n applied to the production of goods and services. It is important therefore to stress the practical application of learning and to encourage creativity at all leve ls of education .

Learning Cities, Learning Regions

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IDEOPOLIS

‘A City or Region whose economy is driven by the creative search for, and the application of, new ideas, thinking and knowledge, and which is firmly rooted to the creative transfer of ideas, to opportunities, to innovation, and eventually to production.’

Cannon, Nathan and Westwood

Building 21st century Learning Regions Learning Region tools and techniques

1. Tools for enhancing self-awareness and encouragin g personal learning .

2. Tools for enabling and improving consultation wit h citizens

3. Data-gathering and analysis tools on learning att itudes and plans

4. Tools for measuring learning region performance a nd progress

5. Tools for mobilising staff in regional stakeholde rs

6. Learning Needs Analyses for city professionals an d administrators

7. Tools for encouraging active citizenship and volu nteering

8. Personal Learning Action Plans

9. Personal Learning Requirements Audits

10. Mentoring tools linking learners with counsellor s and/or experts

11. Tools for celebrating learning

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Links its strategy to the development of the learning city as a vast learning

organisation in which everyone continuously learns how to manage

and deliver quality services and products

Learning Cities, Learning Regions

European Commission Socrates R3L Programme

Local and Regional Authorities(Short Version)

A Stakeholder AuditA tool to enable Local and Regional Authorities to analyse and respond toa changing world in which lifelong learning is predominant, and cities and regions are in the process of becoming ‘Learning Cities’ and ‘Learning Regions’

Building 21st Century Learning Regions

Eg The Local Authorities Stakeholder AuditCurrent perceptions, commitment and strategies,

content and implementation methods, the authority as a Learning Organization, quality and standards, etc

Participation and partnership in the community and the Authority’s role measures to encourage active citizenship and volunteering, consultation processes, relations with stakeholders and leadership.

Accessibility and wider participation in learninglearning where, when and how people want it, support systemsbarrier removal etc

Communications and information strategies to increase the incidence of learning,

internal information giving in the administration , methods of communication, key learning messages and their accessibility, wired city, learning technology use etc

Staff training and development internally and externally, in-service teacher trainingcontinuous professional development

Socio-economic and resource matters, creating wealth, skills surveys, development policies, finance, global participation and other initiatives

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As in the drive for Total Quality Management during the 1990s, quality will not pervade unless every person in the organization has been immersed into the concept. So it is in the administration departments of a budding learning city. Each person will need to know at least the basic principles of the learning region and each department will have its own particular orientation towards implementing them.

Learning Cities, Learning Regions, Learning Communities

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Building 21st century Learning Regions

Lilliput materials

14 modules, 59 topics, 190 lessons

Mod 1: Introduction to Learning Regions - why, what , where, when, how Mod 2: The Individual and the Learning RegionMod 3: Adult Education in a Learning RegionMod 4/5: The Community in a Learning RegionMod 6: Politics of the Learning Region

Mod 7: Economics, Technology, and Sustainability of a Learning Region Mod 8/9: The Workplace in a Learning Region

Mod 10: Language Learning in a Learning RegionMod 11: The Law and the Learning Region

Mod 12: Schools in the Learning Region Mod 13: The Family and the Learning Region Mod 14: Higher Education in the Learning Region

WWW.APPUI.ESC-TOULOUSE.FR

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Longlearn materials

9 themes, 52 subthemes, 300 assignments and exercises

WWW.LONGLEARN.ORG.UK

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The Sapporo Learning FestivalSapporo Learning Festival

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The Cybergrannies of Craiglockhart

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LEARNING CITYNETS and PALLACE

Beijing Adelaide Auckland

Edmonton Espoo Sannois

Schools Schools Schools

Schools Schools Schools

Adult Education

Adult Education

Adult Education

Adult Education

Adult Education

Adult Education

Higher Education

Higher Education

Higher Education

Higher Education Higher

Education

Higher Education

Elected Reps

Elected Reps

Elected Reps

Elected Reps

Elected Reps

Elected Reps

Private Sector

Private Sector

Private Sector

Private sector

Private Sector

Private Sector

Linking Learning Cities and Regions

Seattle Stirling Sydney

Gaza City Shanghai Puglia/Bari

Schools Schools Schools

Schools Schools Schools

Adult Ed Adult Ed Adult Ed

Adult Ed Adult Ed Adult Ed

Universities Universities Universities

Universities Universities Universities

Business and Industry

Business and Industry

Business and Industry

Business and Industry

Business and Industry

Business and Industry

Local Gov’t

Local Gov’t

Local Gov’t

Local Gov’t

Local Gov’t

Local Govt

Cultural Services

Cultural Services

Cultural Services

Cultural Services

Cultural Services

Cultural Services

Building 21st Century Learning RegionsAdult and Community Education

Adult and Community Education

Local Govt

Admin

Local Govt

Admin

SchoolsSchools

LargeCompaniesLargeCompanies

SME’sSME’s

CulturalServices -MUSEUMSLIBRARIES etc

CulturalServices -MUSEUMSLIBRARIES etc

Sports &VoluntaryOrganisations

Sports &VoluntaryOrganisations

Profess-IonalAssoc-iations

Profess-IonalAssoc-iations

IndividualsAnd

Families

IndividualsAnd

Families

HigherEducation

HigherEducation

The Village of Eus, France

Mount Canigou

Learning Cities, Learning Regions

Woodberry Down School

Inner City Problems

High Crime Area

Little Learning Culture

1500 pupils, 120 staff

Learning Cities, Learning Regions

IBM City Branch

Rich area of the City

700 highly trained staff

Commuters

Learning Cities, Learning Regions

Trust Fund for school visits

LEARNING CITIES, LEARNING REGIONS

Trust Fund for school visits

Opera

Learning Cities, Learning Regions

Trust Fund for school visits

Opera

Interviewing Scheme

World Class Biologist3 Trained EFL Teachers2 Former Professors of German2 Former Environmental Studies teachers2 Trained Opera Singers1 former actor and film star2 former mathematics teachers2 former French teachersetc etc

Learning Cities, Learning Regions