[Ftffacilitationteam] Advocacy training from ICAE

[ana agostino]

Dear friends, queridas amigas,
I am sending information on the next training course from ICAE that is an 
opportunity for social activists. I am sure you know people who can benefit 
from this course so we would appreciate it very much if you could send this 
information to people you think can benefit from the training. There are 
scholarships available for people from the South. So thanks in advance for 
identifying possible candidates and sending them the information. Greetings,
Ana

Les envío información del curso de capacitación de ICAE que es una 
oportunidad para activistas sociales. Estoy segura que conocen gente que se 
puede beneficiar de este curso por lo que sería muy bueno que les hicieran 
llegar la información. Hay becas disponibles para participantes del sur. De 
manera que desde ya les agradezco la difusión entre personas que ustedes 
vean como posibles candidatos y candidatas.
Saludos,
Ana


Español abajo - Spanish below -
 Apologies for cross-posting

 The International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) is pleased to announce
 its third edition of the Academy of Lifelong Learning Advocacy that will be
 held in Montevideo, Uruguay, from September 24 to October 12, 2007.

 The ICAE Academy of Lifelong Learning, was first launched in Buskerud,
 Norway in 2004. Its second edition was also held in Norway in 2005 and it
 was not possible to hold the third edition in 2006, despite the great
 interest raised.

 Therefore, with renewed energy and an updated programme according to the
 changing global context, we are launching this third edition that aims to
 give emerging leaders in adult learning and social movement activists the
 opportunity to empower themselves and acquire the skills to advocate for
and
 support adult learning for active citizenship.

 Our objective is to help them generate a broader vision of adult education
 and lifelong learning within the framework of human rights, developing
 linkages with the most important globalization issues that are currently
 affecting the world, and support the emergence of a new leadership, for the
 global network of adult educators, to secure the regeneration of ICAE and
 the movements for lifelong learning in general.

 This space for mutual learning will be key in the preparatory process
 towards next international adult education conference, CONFINTEA VI, to be
 held in Brazil in 2009.

 The course will be in english and will involve lectures and discussions,
 case study presentations and analysis, as well as debates. Participants
will
 be trained to work as a global team, by experienced and high-level experts
 from different regions who will give their perspectives on advocacy issues.

 We attach the Call for Applications, Application Form and Proposal.
Deadline
 to apply is June 30, 2007. Documentation must be sent to:
 icaeialla en gmail.com

 Please distribute widely.

 Best regards,

 Celia Eccher
 Secretary General
 ICAE
International Council for Adult Education
 Av. 18 de Julio 2095 / 301
 11200 Montevideo - Uruguay
 Tel/fax: (598 - 2) 409 79 82
 E-mail: secretariat en icae.org.uy
 www.icae.org.uy

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 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

 Course overview

 Date:          September 24 - October 12, 2007
 Venue:     Hostería del Lago, Montevideo, Uruguay

 Cost:          USD 2,000  (board, lodging, tuition costs) + airfare cost
 Note: A limited number of scholarships (either full or partial) are
 available for applicants from developing countries.

 Organized by:  International Council for Adult Education (ICAE)

 Accredited by:   International Council for Adult Education (ICAE)

 Objective:

 The aim of this three-week intensive session is to give emerging leaders in
 adult learning and social movement activists the opportunity to empower
 themselves and acquire the skills to advocate for and support adult
learning
 for active citizenship.
 Our objective is to help them generate a broader vision of adult education
 and lifelong learning within the framework of human rights, developing
 linkages with the most important globalization issues that are currently
 affecting the world.
 If you wish to see the testimonies or photographs of previous editions of
 this course (IALLA I & II) please visit our website: www.icae.org.uy

 Requirements
 The program is open to applicants who meet the following requirements:
 -     advocacy experience
 -     activism in the adult learning and social movement's field
 -     graduates or equivalent education or advanced students
 -     priority shall be given to young leaders
 -     ability to communicate (oral and writing skills) effectively and
 fluently in English. (No translation will be available)
 -     availability to attend the whole course (from September 24 to
 October 12, 2007)

 Application process
 Applicants should submit the following documents:
 - Application form and curriculum vitae (not more than 4 pages) should be
 sent by electronic means to:   icaeialla en gmail.com

 - Letters of recommendation from two referees should be sent directly from
 the referees to the Selection Committee:
 By email: icaeialla en gmail.com  (in letterhead sheet and with scanned
 signature)
 or by Fax: (598-2) 409 79 82

 The deadline for the receipt of application form, curriculum vitae and
 referee letters of recommendation, is June 30, 2007

 Applicants will be notified about the selection by the end of July. A
formal
 letter may be sent, upon request, for the institution where you are
applying
 for a scholarship.

 Please note: Application forms, curriculum vitae or letters of
 recommendation which are hand-written, incomplete, submitted after
deadline,
 or which are not in English language, will not be accepted.

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 PROPOSAL

 General Objectives

 To build the skills of educators and social movement activists in
supporting
 adult learning for change, and to consolidate ICAE as a global network
 committed to that end, through an annual residential programme on advocacy
 for adult learning.

 Specific Objectives

 1. To generate a broader vision on adult education within the framework of
 human rights and active citizenship, developing linkages with the most
 important globalization issues that are currently affecting the world.

 2. To support the emergence of a new leadership for the global network of
 adult educators committed and trained to work as a global team, to secure
 the regeneration of ICAE, in particular, and the movements for lifelong
 learning in general.

 3. To follow-up and facilitate the exchange between participants to promote
 the continuity of the learning process by sharing their own experience
after
 IALLA course.

 Principles

 The definition of the contents should take into account the new learning
 needs emerging from the current global context.
 At a time in which the current globalizing model is characterized by
 economic uncertainty, population displacement, war, the advance of
 fundamentalisms, the difficulties regarding multilateralism, and the
greater
 interdependence in relation to all global policies unequally affecting the
 countries of the world, there is a pressing need to rethink deeply and
 critically the educational proposals at formal and informal levels, at all
 ages.
 There is also a need to have an ethical approach within the framework of
 Human Rights and to develop teamwork capacity and skills at global level,
 instead of repeating what has been done for the past decades, which
fostered
 competitiveness and individual work, and which does not allow to generate
 responses to extremely complex situations like the ones we are living.
 Today it is no longer possible to think of a super team of a sole country,
 able to account for global situations. Today it is necessary to cultivate
 international teamwork, which would be able to recognize differences and
 generate synergies among this diversity of visions and skills, and which
 would have the capacity of generating new solutions and the subsequent
 advocacy for promoting change in the public policies at all levels.
 We must generate an agile and proactive attitude in the participants,
taking
 into account the unprecedented changing global times, whether participating
 in a campaign, whether promoting a research and other activities which
could
 be fostered from global to local levels.
 The education currently imparted is notoriously outdated so as to respond
to
 these new situations.

 Outcomes

 .     To train 40 new leaders in global teamwork and advocacy on lifelong
 learning and adult learning.
 .     To develop a shared understanding of a common broader vision on
 adult education.
 .     To learn about different contexts and strategies for advocacy, and
 to relate them to participants' own advocacy for adult learners.
 .     Practical proposals for advocacy work on behalf of adult learners
 with concrete objectives and a clear sense of who is to influence and how.
 .     Sensitize participants to commonalities and diversity in their
 experience so that they can work in groups and teams, at global level, in
 making the case for the popular learning dimension for social action.
 .     Develop skills in marshalling arguments for evidence-based advocacy.
 .     Develop capacity to work together and to enjoy teamwork.
 .     Acknowledge and acquire the capacity to work in civil society
 organizations, in networks (and network building) to promote work in a
 global network, and at different levels.
 .     Make them start doing positive exercises regarding learning from
 diversity, and from cross-cultural experience.
 .     Identify strategies to influence policy and policy makers, using old
 skills in new ways.

 Content

 The course will be structured to provide a coherent learning process.

 The curriculum's development process is a challenging balance among core
and
 solid contents, teamwork, and the search for opportunities aimed at
 innovative projects. Our challenge is how to provide a critical
 analysis/understanding while avoiding a feeling of powerlessness (links
 between personal and common projects).

 The first module, will be mainly focused on the concept of civil society
and
 main actors, state, and rights; globalization and resistance; civil society
 engagement with UN process; new movements of the civil society such as
 women's movement, peace movements, and environmental movements; World
Social
 Forum and Perspectives of the global movement; the action of civil society
 as an educational process.

 The second module, will focus on the global governance complex and its
 actors; UN summits and conferences, participation of civil society in the
UN
 environment; the role of regional and global networks in the present
 context; the state of the matter regarding the preparatory process towards
 CONFINTEA VI in Brazil, the follow up of EFA Global Monitoring Report and
 the Millennium Development Goals process; the right to education and
 lifelong learning; the right to quality public services for all women and
 men; the global advocacy landscape over the last 10 years:
contextualization
 of the MDG process; the UN Reform process.

 The third module will work mainly on the implications of shifting terrains
 and emerging issues arising from global geopolitics to advocacy on adult
education: globalization & war/linking the local with the global, the
 intersection of religion, politics & struggles for economic justice,
gender,
 race & class identity issues; collective construction of a new thinking on
 advocacy for adult education; strategic advocacy planning; looking at
three-
 level objectives of advocacy and of different actors; assessing our
 organization's capacity for advocacy at national, regional and
international
 spheres; techniques in identifying an advocacy issue and in formulating a
 policy solution to advocate on; steps in formulating an advocacy agenda at
 global sphere and national sphere.

 Methodology

 .     To develop a format that would allow the harmonization of
 pedagogical progression and the learning process.
 .     To alternate complementary methodological proposals such as
 lectures, courses, workshops.
 .     To combine conceptual inputs of theoretical analysis with practical
 experiences, especially those of participants and the host
 country: "learning from diversity".
 .     To foresee the presence of someone attentive to group dynamics, and
 to work with the participants; group dynamics is part of the learning
 process.
 .     To provide the possibility of living together with several senior
 education leaders and thinkers, with an appropriate regional balance.

 Resource Persons

 Paul Bélanger - Content Coordinator. He is President of the International
 Council for Adult Education, Former Director of the UNESCO Institute for
 Education (UIL), Professor at Université du Québec, Montréal, and Director
 of the Research Center on Lifelong Learning (CIRDEP).

 Sergio Haddad - Convenor of the first module. He is Secretary General of
 Açao Educativa, Member of ICAE Executive Council and Member of the
 International Secretariat of the International Council of the World Social
 Forum.

 Celita Eccher - Convenor of the second module. She is the Secretary General
 of ICAE, Regional Coordinator of DAWN for Latin America, and Former General
 Coordinator of REPEM.

 Josefa Francisco - Convenor of the third module. She is the Regional
 Coordinator of DAWN/South East Asia (Development Alternatives with Women
for
 a New Era).

 Professors' Profile:

 Two kinds of professors: professors facilitating learning, and special
 invitees for the conferences, seeking a regional balance.
 The professors facilitating learning shall contribute with specific
contents
 and a political approach to the issue.
 The lecturers should have achieved international recognition.
 For the specific work on advocacy at different levels, we thought of
 representatives of different global networks and national members.

 Participants' Selection Process

 .     The selection process will be conducted by the Selection Committee.
 This Committee may be comprised by 3 experts coming from different regions,
 in addition to ICAE Secretary-General.
 .     Make a Call for Applications.
 .     Receive the applications according to previously established
 criteria.
 .     The Selection Committee opens the evaluation period and selects the
 participants.

 Identified criteria for the selection of participants:

 .     ability to communicate effectively in English since no translation
 will be available
 .     process skills
 .     new leadership in adult learning
 .     networking skills
 .     gender balance
 .     a balance of representation

 Duration: 3 weeks: September 24 - October 12, 2007

 Venue: Hostería del Lago, Montevideo, Uruguay

 Cost:  US$ 2,000 (covering lodging, board and tuition costs) plus airfare
 cost

 Note: A limited number of scholarships (either full or partial) are
 available for applicants from developing countries.

 Deadline:  Deadline to submit application form is:  June 30, 2007

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 El Consejo Internacional de Educación de Personas Adultas tiene el agrado
de
anunciar la tercera edición de su curso de formación en advocacy por el
aprendizaje a lo largo de toda la vida (ICAE Academy of Lifelong Learning
Advocacy - IALLA) que tendrá lugar en Montevideo, Uruguay, del 24 de
setiembre al 12 de octubre, 2007.

Este curso de formación, IALLA, fue realizado por primera vez en Buskerud,
Noruega en 2004. Su segunda edición también tuvo lugar en Noruega en el 2005
y lamentablemente no fue posible realizar la tercera edición en el 2006, a
pesar del gran interés generado.

Por lo tanto, este año estamos lanzando la tercera edición con renovada
energía y un programa actualizado de acuerdo al cambiante contexto global,
que apunta a dar la oportunidad a líderes en la educación de personas
adultas y activistas de los movimientos sociales, de empoderarse y adquirir
aptitudes para realizar trabajo de adovcacy y apoyar el aprendizaje de las
personas adultas para una ciudadanía activa.

Nuestro objetivo es ampliar la visión de la educación de personas adultas y
el aprendizaje a lo largo de toda la vida, en el marco de los derechos
humanos, vinculándolos con los temas de globalización más importantes que
están afectando al mundo actualmente, y promover el surgimiento de nuevos
liderazgos en la red global de educadores de personas adultas, para
garantizar la renovación del ICAE y de los movimientos del aprendizaje a lo
largo de la vida en general

Este espacio de aprendizaje mutuo será clave en el proceso preparatorio
hacia la próxima conferencia internacional de educación de personas adultas,
CONFINTEA VI, a realizarse en Brasil en el año 2009.

El curso será dictado en inglés y se darán charlas, discusiones, se
presentarán estudios de caso y análisis, así como debates. Los y las
participantes serán capacitados para el trabajo global por expertos de alto
nivel, de diferentes regiones que darán sus perspectivas sobre temas
vinculados al advocacy.

Adjuntamos el llamado, el formulario y la propuesta. La fecha límite para
presentarse es 30 de junio de 2007. Enviar la información a:
icaeialla en gmail.com

Agradecemos dar amplia difusión.

Saludos cordiales,

Celia Eccher
Secretary General
ICAE


ICAE
International Council for Adult Education
General Secretariat
18 de Julio 2095 apto. 301
11200 Montevideo - Uruguay
Tel/fax: (598-2) 409 7982
E-mail: ana en icae.org.uy
www.icae.org.uy

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