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as it says really - news about us, our activities and related content; a space for updates and information but also somewhere to share and celebrate!
Welcome to our news pages. We use these to share anything new to the website or in our work that we feel may be of interest to our clients, partners, community members or even the casual visitor.
We hope the items here will give you a taste of what we are up to and encourage you to further explore our site and our work.
09/07/11
Negotiating change
Lifeworlds were pleased to be invited to contribute to the 'Building a Sustainable Funding Base' workshop being run by the Consortium of Development Education Centres and Think Global in Manchester on 8 July 2011. The event was described as follows:
"In the light of reduced funding and changes to statutory frameworks, to ensure our future survival, organisations concerned with global learning have to find new ways to raise funds, to develop self-funded services and have a strong strategic approach to future planning.
These workshops will provide a space for members to share strategies and ideas on diversifying income, service provision and strategic planning, with presentations from some members who have been successful in business planning and finding new ways to diversify. There will also be plenty of time for questions and small group discussion in order that we can bring forward the best ideas to share."
We were invited to share our experiences from outside of the DEC sector in developing alternative business models for working in a post-funding environment.
The workshop was vibrant and thought-provoking and participants responded well to our own input and the subsequent discussions. We hope this might lead to further engagement with DECs in the future.
10/07/11
Adventures in blogging
Blogging is nothing new and many of you may already be bloggers, but it is a new adventure for us at Lifeworlds and one we enter with a mixture of nerves and uncertainty. If you're a seasoned blogger then come and join in and help us to find our way. You can find the Lifeworlds blog at http://lifeworlds.posterous.com/ or by visiting the blog tab on this website where we will add additional blogs as we get the hang of it!
14/07/11
"Build-a-Book" initiative launched
Build-a-Book is a Lifeworlds initiative that was trialled during the spring term 2011 and following feedback and revisions we are now launching it as a full project for the 2011/12 school year. We have formed a partnership with Severn Trent Water Education Team for delivering the Build-a-Book around water, but this is a flexible initiative that can be made available in a variety of formats to suit your particular interest area.
Click here to find out more or contact us if you are interested in a booking for your school.
Autumn/Winter 2011
15 December 2011
Following on from the news item on 7 November, we are pleased to release the promotional details of the first product to emerge from our partnership with Village Aid. Real World Drama...An African Village Decides is the first in a series of planned Theatre-in-Education products that are being developed and delivered by Lifeworlds Practitioner, Helen Hunter. Helen is a highly experienced drama teacher whose previous Theatre-in-Education projects have met with widespread acclaim. We are delighted to be able to add her creative energy to our schools offer in 2012-13.
12 December 2011
Lifeworlds have recently completed articles related to their work for two well-respected educational journals. Primary Geography published by the GA will carry a piece (and supporting case study) about our new Time 2 Think initiative that outlines the process as a key tool for promoting dialogic learning. The second piece that considers the process of establishing MELA as a cooperative community will be published in the Journal of Cooperative Studies as part of a special issues looking at cooperative education and learning. We were very excited to be asked to contribute to this, and especially as it will be published early in 2012 - the International Year of Cooperation!
08 December 2011
Lifeworlds are pleased to announce the completion of the YouthXChange Climate Change and Lifestyles Guidebook for UNESCO/UNEP. Lifeworlds co-wrote and designed the guidebook that is available as both a printed and online publication via UN websites and is set for distribution around the world. You can link to a copy of the publication via our design pages here.
01 December 2011
Lifeworlds are pleased tohave formed a partnership with the team behind the Common Cause report to hold a Values and Frames seiminar on 5 March 2012 in the Midlands region (venue TBC). This brings an important piece of national debate to the region and will be publicised and shared through the MELA community as the start of what we hope will be a series of cutting edge seminars for the educational community in the region.
10 November 2011
Lifeworlds is delighted to announce several new partnerships and collaborations that have recently been finalised. We will be working alongside the Peak District National Park Authority (PDNPA) education team over the winter months to help shape and develop the future of education support to schools, families and communities across the national park. Lifeworlds are also working with the PDNPA as partners in the development of a new leadership course for sustainability called Connected Leaders. Other partners include WWF, Derbyshire County Council, Derby City Council and Mulgrave Primary School, Asterdale Primary School, and David England. Finally we have also joined forces with WWF, Oxfam, British Red Cross, Practical Action, Think Global and Decision Point to develop a new leadership initiative for head teachers around values. These are all exciting developments for Lifeworlds and we look forward to rolling them out over 2012.
07 November 2011
Lifeworlds has entered into a new partnership with Village Aid based in Bakewell, Derbyshire to provide a continuation of the acclaimed and highly successful theatre in education project "Growing Global". We are currently revising the offer in readiness for delivery in early 2012 and will develop further details on the project pages of our website in due course.
04 November 2011
Lifeworlds practitioners Rosie Wilson and Rob Bowden have just returned from a very successful study visit to Kerala in South India that formed the key stimulus to the What is Learning For? project being run by Lifeworlds in 2011-12. We will be publishing and sharing some of the outputs and outcomes of this work in the project pages in due course.
03 October 2011
Lifeworlds is pleased to announce that 3 new members have joined its co-operative of practitioners. The new Lifeworlds Practitioners are Jackie Zammit, Helen Hunter and Linda Ramirez Barker. They each bring great talent and inspiration to the team and we look forward to developing new ideas and working with them. Their profiles will be added to our people page in the coming weeks.
29 September 2011
We today sent out the first edition of the WIRE - the newsletter for MELA members. Lifeworlds Learning will continue to support MELA for the academic year 2011/12 and there are many plans for its growth and development. As with last year, the flagship event for the MELA community will be a Festival of Learning co-ordinated by Lifeworlds Learning and this years event will take place on 19 June 2012 at Nottingham Conference Centre in the heart of the city. We had a fantastic day there last year and look forward to this years event being bigger, better and braver!
23 September 2011
We are pleased to have entered into a collaborative project around leadership and sustainability. Although in early days, the collaboration with Derby City, Derbyshire County, WWF and the Peak District National Park offers an exciting opportunity to explore the type of leadership needed for creating more just and sustainable futures. If you are interested in finding out more about this then do send us an email.