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International seminar on community learning centres (pdf 389kb)

This seminar was built upon previously held seminars that addressed community learning centres (CLCs) and introduced some new content areas to be implemented through CLCs e.g. HIV/AIDS, human rights and early childhood care and education (ECCE).

During the seminar, participants shared CLC experiences and explored future strategies and actions to institutionalize CLCs within the framework of Education for All (EFA) and the United Nations Literacy Decade (UNLD), as well as to work towards creating a learning society. Specifically, the seminar had the following objectives:

1) To share CLC experiences with programme activities, management, policy linkages and outcomes based on the draft findings of the research studies undertaken during July - September 2005 by several countries in the region and the Arab States.
2) To share and discuss innovative experiences from CLC literacy and continuing education programmes in such areas as synergies between formal and non-formal education, life skills in collaboration with other sectors, mother tongue literacy, and the effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT), as well as field visits to local CLCs and lifelong learning institutions in China.
3) To develop future directions and strategies for CLCs, with particular emphasis on enhancing sustainability through policy/legislative support for the institutionalization of CLCs within the national EFA and UNLD plans, as well as lifelong learning institutions to promote the development of a learning society.

 

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