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Lifelong learning isn’t a luxury

« Lifelong learning isn’t a luxury, although it does require investment. The investment enables our graduates to engage more fully with the world around them and exercise their responsibilities as citizens, to become shapers of the economy and culture of the future rather than be just spectators — or victims. »

« Our campuses should maximize each . . . → Read More: Lifelong learning isn’t a luxury

A new Web site for Learning : TED Ed

TED Ed LESSONS WORTH SHARING : http://ed.ted.com/

This site (beta)  is designed to enable teachers to create unique lesson plans around its video content and lets educators create lessons from scratch using any TED-Ed video (already a few dozen videos available). Since each video on the site is mapped via tagging to subjects taught . . . → Read More: A new Web site for Learning : TED Ed

How to reduce the accessibility of self-related thoughts of incompetence to improve learning?

Improving Working Memory Efficiency by Reframing Metacognitive Interpretation of Task Difficulty

Autin, F., & Croizet, J.-C. (2012, March 5). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0027478

http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xge-ofp-autin.pdf

Abstract

Working memory capacity, our ability to manage incoming information for processing purposes, predicts achievement on a wide range of intellectual abilities. Three randomized . . . → Read More: How to reduce the accessibility of self-related thoughts of incompetence to improve learning?

UK – Lifelong Learning for older adults

The research Blog of G.J. COOKE

An on-going work with personal reflections on various themes associated with lifelong learning:

Towards a redefinition of lifelong learning for older adults in the UK

« Upholding the positive impact on senior health, I seek to establish qualitatively a correlation between ageing, activity and wellness. Current emphasis on capacity . . . → Read More: UK – Lifelong Learning for older adults

Paris – Les journées de l’innovation à l’Unesco, le 28 et 29 mars 2012

UNESCO Paris : Salle XII, Salle IX, Salle VII, Salle VIII le 28 et le 29 mars 2012 « L’innovation, la créativité, l’autonomie

sont des mots qui attirent tout autant qu’ils questionnent. Enseignants, chefs d’établissement, directeurs, formateurs, inspecteurs, partenaires de l’école cherchent des pistes pour améliorer leur action, enrichir leurs ressources, partager leurs expériences et . . . → Read More: Paris – Les journées de l’innovation à l’Unesco, le 28 et 29 mars 2012

Ireland- Lifelong Learning and Second-level Schools

Parents « want second-level schools that will help their children become confident, ethical, critical and creative thinkers. They want them to develop lifelong learning skills and they want them to thrive academically and to develop personally and socially. »

Source : The Irish Times – Tuesday, March 13, 2012

A blank slate to reinvent . . . → Read More: Ireland- Lifelong Learning and Second-level Schools

India – Learning from a barefoot movement

Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement (TED)

« In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men — many of them illiterate — to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It’s called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works. »

Bunker Roy: Apprendre . . . → Read More: India – Learning from a barefoot movement

UIL- GLOSSARY OF ADULT LEARNING IN EUROPE

Eureda/UIL – A Glossary for adult learning in Europe – Edited by Paolo Federighi, Hamburg, 1999 Eureda collects central concepts in adult learning and explains what they mean.

Whether in the area of research or politics, adult education is the subject of rapid evolution the dynamics of which are difficult to keep up with. . . . → Read More: UIL- GLOSSARY OF ADULT LEARNING IN EUROPE

Heutagogy : from learning to lifelong learning ?

Heutagogy (based on the Greek for “self”) was defined by Hase and Kenyon in 2000 as the study of self-determined learning.

« According to Schön (1983), reflective practice supports learners in becoming lifelong learners, as “when a practitioner becomes a researcher into his own practice, he engages in a continuing process of self-education” (p. 299). . . . → Read More: Heutagogy : from learning to lifelong learning ?

France – L’ENSEIGNEMENT ET LA FORMATION À L’HORIZON 2025

QUELS DÉFIS ? QUELLES INNOVATIONS ?

« Grâce au soutien de dix organisations, Futuribles International a réalisé en 2011 une étude prospective sur les systèmes d’enseignement et de formation en France à l’horizon de 15 ans.

L’objectif de cette étude n’était pas d’ajouter une nouvelle expertise à celles déjà nombreuses qui existent sur les systèmes . . . → Read More: France – L’ENSEIGNEMENT ET LA FORMATION À L’HORIZON 2025