Conference info

The Falcon Conference

OBJECTIVES:

  • to provide an arena for discussion on research, good practice, achievements and challenges relating to the field of family learning

  • to provide an opportunity to see family learning as a holistic approach to life long learning

  • to create the basis for an expanding and sustainable network of European institutions involved in family learning

Venue and dates:

Vox, Norwegian Institute for Adult Learning

Oslo, Norway

Aug 31st – Sept 4th, 2005


Wednesday

 

Arrival of participants

 

19.30

Dinner in downtown Oslo

 

Thursday

09.00 – 09.30

Registration and coffee

 

09.30 – 10.00

Opening of the conference

Turid Kjølseth, General Director at Vox

10.00 – 10.45

Family learning: breaking intergenerational cycles of disengagement

Juliette Collier

10.45 – 11.00

Coffee break

 

11.00 – 12.00

Introduction to the parallel sessions:

Four presentations in plenary session, of the parallel workshops that will be held after lunch.

Gail Aldwin,

Gianfranco Garotta + Françoise Grudler

Clare Daybell

Janet Webb + Mary Flanagan

12.00 – 13.30

Lunch

 

13.30 – 14.45

4 parallel sessions

A: “Integration of refugee families into the school community through a CLPE family language programme”

B: “Personal and familiar education history: an authobiographic tool for welcoming parents to Family learning courses”

C: Practical method for teaching family litaracy, language and numeracy in different contexts.”

D: “The home as a learning place: tried and tested ideas for family learning programmes.”

 

A: Gail Aldwin, Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, UK

B: Gianfranco Garotta, Italy and Francoise Grudler, France

C: Clare Daybell, Hull, UK

D: Janet Webb and Mary Flanagan, Clare Family Learning Programme.

14.45 – 15.00

Coffee break

 

15.00 – 15.30

“Guidelines for the development of family literacy work in an adult literacy context in Ireland”

Inez Bailey, NALA, Irland

19.00

Dinner in downtown Oslo

 

Friday

   

09.00 – 09.45

Promoting inclusion through family learning

Robin Richardson

09.45 – 10.00

Break

 

10.00 – 10.45

“Evaluating Family Learning programmes. The Manukau project”

John Benseman (Powerpoint 4 MB)

10.45 – 11.00

Break and marketplace

 

11.00 – 12.00

Introduction to the parallel sessions:

Four presentations in plenary session of the parallel workshops that will be held after lunch.

Anca Colibaba,

Barbro Paget and Tony Jivaeus,

Nourreddine Erradi, Helga Arnesen and Stine Aasheim

12.00 – 13.30

Lunch

 

13.30 – 14.45

4 parallel sessions

E: “Another way of looking at Moliere's M. Jourdain's famous comment: Je ne savais pas que j'ai  toujours fait de la prose... “

F1: “How to benefit from Family Learning in a local development structure regarding public health in society. Creating an integrated model school with Family Learning as a profile”

G: “Immigrant parents as educators”.

H: “Family Learning as an instrument for the integration of adult immigrants in Norway.”

E: Anca Colibaba, EuroEd, Romania

F: Barbro Paget and Tony Jivèus, Sweden

G: Noureddine Erradi, ROC, Netherlands

H: Helga Arnesen and Stine Aasheim, Vox, Norway

 

14.45 – 15.00

Break

 

15.00 – 15.30

Video presentation + discussion

Norreddine Erradi, ROC  Midden,
Brabant, The Netherlands

19.30

Dinner downtown

 

Saturday

   

09.30 - 09.45

Presentation of the Falcon portal

Graciela Sbertoli

09.45 - 10.15

Presentation of possibilities for future project cooperation: the Grundtvig programme

Monika Kepe, European Commission

10.15 - 11.00

Group discussions and brainstorming

Chaired by Vox

11.00 - 12.00 Results from discussion, evaluation and closure Graciela Sbertoli

12.00 - 13.30

Lunch

 

13.30 -

Optional sightseeing in Oslo

 
19.30

Dinner downtown

 

Sunday

   
 

Departure of participants

 

Grundtvig 3 grants

The conference is organized within the frame of the Grundtvig 3 action of the European Socrates Programme. If you are interested in applying for a grant, contact your National Agency

Click here to see the conference description as Grundtvig 3 event.

For more information on Grundtvig 3 courses in general, click here

For more information on the Falcon conference, write to Halldis Børnes 

 

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