Adult Learners' Week - He Tangata Mātauranga 2012
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Monday 3 September - Sunday 9 September 2012
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About Adult Learners' Week
What is Adult Learners' Week?
Adult Learners' Week/He Tangata Mātauranga is a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) initiative supported by the Tertiary Education Commission, adult and community education providers at a local level and the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO. The Week also incorporates International Literacy Day on September 8 each year.
It was established in Aotearoa New Zealand in 1998 with the goal of raising the profile of adult learning. It is an opportunity to celebrate the successes and achievements of everyone participating in Adult and Community Education (ACE). It has also become a vehicle for encouraging anyone in the wider community with needs or desires that can be met through learning to consider adult education, whether it be learning to adjust to life in a new country, re-training to find employment, adjusting to life after prison, acquiring parenting skills or just getting out and doing an activity to make life better and meet people.
In Aotearoa New Zealand there are thousands of opportunities to take part in adult learning which doesn't necessarily take place in classrooms, require enrolment, assignments or assessments. Each year around half a million adult New Zealanders participate in learning programmes.
Throughout the week which in 2012 will run from September 3 -9, over thirty regional coordinators will be organising programmes of events in their communities to celebrate adult learning and highlight its benefits.
Aims
Adult learning can take place at many different places and levels of the community. Adult Learners' Week/He Tangata Mātauranga recognises that from teaching English to an immigrant in a private home, attending a programme at the local library, or being part of a community support group, through to attending a private training organisation or earning a university degree, all adult learning achievements are worth celebrating. Many stories are inspirational and in being told, encourage people who thought learning was not for them that there are endless possibilities.
Aims of Adult Learners' Week He Tangata Mātauranga are to:
- Celebrate the efforts, achievements and contributions of adult learners, educators and providers at both regional and national events
- Strengthen adult and community education and raise public awareness of the rich variety of learning opportunities for adults
- Widen access to learning opportunities and encourage more people to seek advice and guidance about returning to learn
- Foster collaborative and cooperative networks and pathways among those who share an interest in adult learning
Theme
This year's posters and postcards will again focus on quotes from learners rather than themes and slogans. People are welcome to continue using the theme Learn for Today and Tomorrow E ako mō tēnei rā me āpōpō in promotional material if they wish.
International ALW
Did you also know that some 40 countries also celebrate Adult Learners' Week? To find out more about international activities, click on www.unesco.org/education/uie/InternationalALW
History
When governments met in Jomtien for the World Conference on Education for All in 1990, among the goals set were universal access to and completion of primary education, and reduction of the adult illiteracy rate to one half its 1990 level by 2000. Ten years later, governments met in Dakar, but the situation had not improved: 113 million children were said to have no access to primary education; and 880 million adults (the majority of them women), were illiterate. Read more . . .
Launch 2012
This year's celebration will be launched in Blenheim on Monday, September 3. Click here to see the photos of last year's launch.
Local Awards 2012
Click here to download the Awards Information (WORD, 15KB)
Certificates
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Click here to download the ALW/HTM Local Awards 2011 Nomination Forms (PDF, 154KB)
Dynamic Community Learning Awards
Adult & Community Education Aotearoa (ACE Aotearoa), the McCombs-Rivers Family and Alison Broad are delighted to announce the eighth year of awards to recognise and celebrate Community Learning. The awards have been created by Patrick McCombs and Mary-Jane Rivers from Wellington, and Alison Broad from Invercargill. They want to celebrate the stories of education programmes that help strengthen communities.
Last year's recipients of the Dynamic Community Learning Awards were the Wellington Sexual Abuse Network and Innermost Gardens.
Providers
ALW/HTM offers you, the ACE provider, with an opportunity to celebrate the work that you do all year. In this way you can acknowledge your learners, promote what you do, and become more visible in your community. You will also have the chance to learn more about the ACE activities of other organisations.
You do not need to be funded as an ACE provider to participate. Any organisation that offers any form of adult learning can take part in the Week. The more providers that take part - the better. It will help raise the profile of the sector.
Funding for Events and Activities
Regional networks, organisations or individuals who are planning an event(s) to celebrate ALW/HTM can apply for up to $600 in funding. The last date for funding applications is May 30. Applications will be processed by June 8.
Download funding application form here (WORD 115KB)
Types of activities
Basically, ALW/HTM activities can be anything that offers members of the local community an opportunity to find out what you do and where you are.
The simplest thing that an organisation can do is to do what they do every other week of the year, but from October 31- November 6 label these activities as Adult Learners' Week/He Tangata Mātauranga events and invite members of the community to observe or take part.
But you can also do something different for ALW/HTM because this will make it easier for your organisation to draw attention to itself. You could hold an open day, set up a display in a shopping centre, host a learning expo, present demonstrations or performances, hold a party...
Here are some examples of activities offered by organisations during previous Adult Learners' Weeks:
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Promotional Material
Click on the posters below to download a copy.
Please provide feedback about these to ALW/HTM Coordinator, Mary Gavigan - maryg@paradise.net.nz
Management & Coordination
National Coordination for ALW/HTM is managed by ACE Aotearoa with funding from the Tertiary Education Commission.
National Advisory Committee
Members of the National Advisory Committee are: Neil Bruce, Alistair Fraser, Wendel Richardson, Mary Gavigan, Sonny Harrison, Matt Walters and Vicki Soanes.
National Coordinator
Mary Gavigan
t: 64 4 971 4416
m: 021 058 8768
e: maryg@paradise.net.nz
