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Quick-Links
Lifeworlds Learning co-ordinate an annual Festival of Learning in June each year (normally around midsummers day) as their main conference-type event. This Festival is organised for the MELA network of learning communities and acts as a showcase, marketplace, and creative hub for the different MELA communities and members. You can find out more about the Festival by visiting the 2011 Festival of Learning pages here.
To register in advance for the 2012 Festival of Learning (19 June 2012 in Nottingham) please send us an email (see link right) with 'Festival 2012' in the subject line and we will keep you informed.
Young People's Festival
We are currently making plans for a young people's Festival of Learning and we are actively seeking partners who may be interested in working with us to put on this event. If that is you, or you are a school interested in bringing some young people to attend the event then contact us and let us know.
Come and see us at...
Lifeworlds Learning regularly contributes to other conferences and can offer thinkpieces, keynotes, seminars and workshops on a wide range of topics. We will update these pages with forthcoming conferences where we are making an input.
Lifeworlds will be participating in a literacy conference for school leaders and literacy advisors in Stoke on Trent. It will be an opportunity for us to share our broad range of support to literacy, but in particular to share our Build-A-Book programme. Further information will be added here as we receive it.
We will be presenting a workshop on our Time 2 Think work at the Tide~ global learning and Cambridge Primary Review conference A world fit to grow up in? Primary global learning in Birmingham. It promises to be an interesting and timely event with Robin Alexander as the keynote speaker. For more information and to book a place click here.
We will be offering a workshop on connecting Education for Sustainable Development and Global Learning at the SEEd National Sustainable Schools Conference Let's Get Creative in Leicester. This key national conference brings together educators and practitioners for a full day of discussing creativity in sustainability. Lifeworlds will also be supporting MELA in a stand representing the region.
Lifeworlds will be offering a workshop on Teaching Reading, Thinking Creatively at a regional Reading Conference in Stoke on Trent. We will be sharing ideas of how to engage readers effectively through the transition from primary to secondary. We will be joined by several leading colleagues in literacy for what promises to be a very purposeful and rewarding day.
We will have a stand at the Association of Citizenship Teaching (ACT) conference 'Helping your pupils make sense of the world' in Manchester. This event equips teachers with the skills and confidence to facilitate constructive dialogue and critical engagement with controversial and sensitive issues. To find out more about the event click here.
Lifeworlds will be running a workshop '7 billion reasons for sustainable learning' at the East Midlands Sustainable Schools Showcase in Lincolnshire, one of the largest sustainability events in the school year. We will also have a stand in the marketplace and be representing the regional network MELA. Come and join in with this fantastic FREE event and bring your school children too!
Lifeworlds will be offering a workshop at this years Derby and Derbyshire Eco-Schools Conference. Rob Bowden, the co-founder of Lifeworlds will also offer the keynote around this years theme 'Eco-spirit: pulling together for the common cause' and sharing his thinking around this important area of work. We'll also have a stand and be helping to promote the regional network MELA.
This is the big one this year. The 2012 MELA Festival of Learning will again take place in central Nottingham in the modern and eco-friendly Nottingham Conference Centre. Last years festival was a great success and created a real buzz and we are looking forward to reviving the same spirit again this year. Lifeworlds will have a stand in the market place and be involved in workshops as well as co-ordinating the entire event. Come and join us.
