Welcome to Adult Learners Week - He Tangata Matauranga 2010
Welcome to Adult Learners' Week - He Tangata Mātauranga 2010
Monday 6th - Sunday 12th September 2010
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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 runs from September 6-12, 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 theme Learn for Today and Tomorrow E ako mō tēnei rā me āpōpō emphasises the way learning has an immediate impact on the lives of adults and their communities but is also an investment for the future. In a time of economic uncertainty, adult learning enhances opportunities.
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.
It is against this background that International Adult Learners' Week takes place.
The move to create a wider celebration of adult learning began with the American Association for the Advancement of Education (AAAE) in the late 1980s.
The US week focused on a Congressional Breakfast for outstanding adult learners backed by an activities pack for AAAE members.
Adult Learners' Week commenced in the United Kingdom in 1992. Australia, along with South Africa and Jamaica, picked up on the success of Adult Learners' Week in 1995 and in 1998 New Zealand began celebrating adult learners as a way of encouraging more participation in lifelong learning.
When UNESCOs General Conference in November 1999 approved the International Adult Learners' Week, the aim was expanded to encourage countries to learn from each other and to amplify the cooperation between agencies active in the promotion of adult learning at international level.
Since then, organisers in more than 40 countries have organised or are preparing learning festivals. These not only raise awareness of the need to create more opportunities for adults to learn, but celebrate the efforts and achievements of the thousands who find the courage to take that first step back.
International Literacy Day and Adult Learners' Week are used as mobilisation initiatives in many countries. They become a key element of national adult learning policies, promoting wider access to adult learning by celebrating individual and collective achievements, and using their experiences to stimulate a demand for learning elsewhere.
Many of the most successful events take place in venues that adults find accessible, friendly, and familiar, such as cafes, bars, community centres, on public transport, sports grounds or village halls. The experiences of some other countries illustrate the different festivals of learning now occurring.
Events
Location |
Date |
Provider |
Event Description |
| Ashburton | Sept 10 | Presentation of Awards by Mayor at the Council Chambers | |
| All week | Mid Canterbury Network | Display in Ashburton Library and promotional banner across Ashburton main street | |
| Auckland Central | Sept 10 | Auckland Central Network | Awards luncheon at the Parnell Trust Community Centre, Parnell Road, 11.30am. Outstanding learners and educators will be acknowledged. Adult Learners share their stories and learning providers will talk about what is on offer in the local community at Panmure Community Library 10.30-12 noon. |
| All week | Auckland City Libraries will increase the number of computer skills and information classes in their Learning at the Library service, all week | ||
| Central Otago | Sept 8 | Central Otago ACE Network | MAD4CO Forum - Hear Rys Taylor from the Sustainable Living Education Trust, 7.30pm at Central Stories, Alexandra. |
| Counties-Manukau | Sept 8 | Counties ACE Network | Celebration Awards Ceremony at Pukekohe High School Hall, Harris St, Pukekohe with Franklin Mayor, Mark Ball, and MPs, Maryan Street and Catherine Delahunty |
| Far North | Sept 6 | Far North REAP | Young Adults Impact Day’10.30am-2.30pm with music, presentations & BBQ, Kaitaia Carpark |
| Sept 7 | EXPO – ACE, PTEs, Wananga tutor demonstartions 10am-2pm, Far North REAP Kauri & Rimu Rooms | ||
| Sept 8 | Maori/Pakeha Elderly Celebration Day – Waiata- Whakangahau- Kupu Whiua, 10am-12.30pm, Far North REAP Kauri & Rimu Rooms | ||
| Sept 9 | Uptown Meet the Public Day, Commerce St, BBQ and fun | ||
| Sept 10 | Road Safety Team, 10am-12pm, Far North REAP front carpark Midday-2pm Awards & BBQ. Guest presenter, Dr Jo Mane |
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| Gisborne | Sept 7 | Tairawhiti REAP Tairawhiti Polytechnic & Turanga Ararau |
Free BBQ and course informaion |
| Sept 8 | Tairawhiti REAP Tairawhiti Polytechnic & Turanga Ararau |
Free BBQ and course informaion | |
| Hawkes Bay | Sept 6 | Literacy Aotearoa Hawke’s Bay | Award ceremony at Eastern Institute of Technology. Speakers and award presenter: Hastings District Councilor Henare O’Keefe and Ian Rowe from Ako Aotearoa. |
| Sept 8 | International Literacy Day. Literacy Aotearoa Hawke’s Bay will conduct a five hour long writing workshop at Community Link, Dalton House, Napier. | ||
| Sept 10 | Second writing day at Hastings Library. The work of the two events will become a book of published writings. Registrations for either of the writing days, contact Chris Richardson (06) 835 5544 or email coordinator@literacyaotearoa.org.nz |
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| Hutt Valley | Sept 8 | ACE Hutt Valley Network | Adult Learning opportunities display day at Queensgate Mall, 10am-4pm |
| Sept 9 | Awards luncheon 11:30-2pm, at the Petone Working Mens Club, Udy St, Lower Hutt | ||
| Invercargill | Sept 6 | Southern ACE Network | National Launch at Te Rau Aroha Marae, Bluff, 9.30am followed by lunch |
| Marlborough | Sept 8 | International Literacy Day open house and activities hosted by Literacy Marlborough | |
| Sept 11 | Pacific Island concert and food. Awards ceremony with the Mayor | ||
| All week | Free give-it-a -go courses at REAP Marlborough. Lbrary displays. Picton Men's Community Shed open day | ||
| North Shore | Sept 7 | Birkenhead Library | Book a FREE workshop to celebrate Adult Learners' Week: Workshops include: Introduction to Facebook, 10.30am-12pm Learn how to get involved in the world of social networking and connect with your friends and family. Bookings required. Limited to 8 participants Tuesday 7 September, 10:30am - noon |
| Sept8 | Birkenhead Library | Book a FREE workshop to celebrate Adult Learners' Week: Workshops include: How to Write a CV, 10.30am-12pm Get advice on how to write a good CV. Presentation to be conducted by Career Services. Registration required. Wednesday 8 September, 10.30am - noon |
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| Sept 12 | Birkenhead Library | Book a FREE workshop to celebrate Adult Learners' Week: Workshops include: Conversational French, 2pm-3.30pm Want to practice your French? Come and converse with others in an informal conversational group. We welcome either pidgin French or fluent speakers. Registration required. Sunday 12 September, 2.00 - 3.30pm |
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| Otago | Sept 7 | International Dinner/Scrabble evening at Otago Bridge Club, 100 Otaki Street, South Dunedin with international meal representing learners’ countries of origin and Kiwis desserts. Prizes for team efforts in Scrabble | |
| Sept 8 | Interactive display at the Library | ||
| Sept 9 | Award Ceremony at the Technique Restaurant, Otago Polytechnic, Harbour Terrace, Dunedin. Drinks and Nibbles from 5.00pm, ceremony begins 5.30pm. Guest speaker and entertainment | ||
| Sept 10 | Salvation Army Employment Plus Open Day with information on courses and activities | ||
| All week | Static display in Public Library | ||
| Queenstown | Sept 11 | Wakatipu ACE Network | Expo of classes on offer in the area and launch of Facebook group 10am - 2pm, O'Connell's Shopping Centre Foodcourt, Queenstown |
| Rotorua | Sept 8 | To celebrate International Literacy Day, the public is invited to be part of 'Altrusa Great Read', at Rotorua City Focus, Midday - 3pm. Everyone is encouraged to spend at least 10 minutes reading. The Mad Poets and The Rotorua Writing Group will be there as well as others promoting literacy and learning | |
| Sept 9 | Celebratory lunch for adult learners who have attended literacy learning during the year, 12-2.30pm, Community House Ground Floor Meeting room | ||
| Ruapehu / Taihape | Sept 6 | Ruapehu REAP | Official Opening at Ruapehu REAP, 1 Tui St, Taihape, 10am-12.00 sharing stories of achievement |
| Sept 7 | Beginner Computer classes, Taihape Library, 9am - 12pm $20 and Cryptic Crossword classes1pm-3pm Baby Talk Workshop - Oscar Room Raetihi Primary School, 10.30-12.30. Learn how to communicate with your baby through sign language. Fab Finger Food Cooking, Taihape Area School, 5.30pm-7.30pm $15 Stay Young! Stay Well! Health and healing, Anglican Church Hall, Rata St, Ohakune, 7pm-9pm |
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| Sept 8 | Social Media Computer Course, Taihape Library, 9am-12midday $10 Making Ends Meet, Budgeting Ideas for young mums, 1 Tui St, Taihape, 9am-12midday Social Media Computer Course, Ohakune Library, 10am-12midday $10 Sudoku, Taihape Library,1 -2.30pm |
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| Sept 9 | Your Photos Computer Class, Taihape Library, 9am-12pm, $20 Flower Arranging, Elder Care, 112 Seddon St, Raetihi, 10.30- 12pm Intergenerational Activities Stories, Taihape Women's Club, 1pm-2.30pm Quiz Night, 1 Tui St, Taihape, 7pm-9.30pm. Make up a team of 4-6 people. Prizes, supper |
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| Sept 10 | Speed Learning, Taihape Library & Council Chambers, 12pm-2pm. Ten minute taster classes - Tai Chi, Mandarin, Maori greetings, ukelele, hip hop, crochet, poker and more | ||
| Sept 11 | Small Motor Maintenance, Dekker Machinery, 29 Seddon St, Raetihi, 10am-1pm Boys and Their Toys - Modifying your car legally, Go-Bus Yard, Kuku St, Taihape, 12pm onwards, Sausage Sizzle BYO Car Intro to Car Maintenance, Go-Bus Yard, Kuku St, Taihape, 12pm onwards Learn to Back a Trailer, Go-Bus Yard, Kuku St, Taihape, 12pm onwards Digital Photography, Barbed Wire Art Gallery, Seddon St, Raetihi, 1pm-4pm $15 Dream Interpretation, Anglican Curch Hall, Rata St, Ohakune, 2pm-1pm For more info admin@ruapehu.co.nz |
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| Tairua | Sept 6 | Tairua SeniorNet | What can you do with your digital photos? 10am -11 am |
| Sept 7 | 10 things everyone should know about looking after their computer, 10am -11 am | ||
| Sept 8 | Creating cards | ||
| Sept 9 | Using skype to stay in touch | ||
| Sept 10 | I can Google, what else can I do in Google? | ||
| Tauranga | Sept 9 | Bay of Plenty Polytechnic | Awards Event at Mayoral Chambers, Tauranga City Council. Awards presented by Mayor Stuart Crosby. Guest speaker,. National Tertiary Teaching Award recipient, Kelly Pender |
| Tararua | Sept 7 | Tararua REAP | Expo at the Dannevirke Library 9am-3pm Computer demonstrations, Trade Training information and Te Reo. Entertainment and refreshments provided |
| Taupo | Sept 10 | Central Plateau REAP | Lunch with guest speaker and presentation of awards at Central Plateau REAP |
| Waikato | Sept 4 | Waikato ACE Network | “Lift Off for Learning” hot air balloon representing adults who have removed barriers to learning plus Learning Expo, Civic Plaza, Hamilton 11am-1pm (postponement date Sept 11, 11.30am) |
| Waitakere | Sept 6 | Henderson Library | Taster classes - Sign Language 10–11am Taster classes – Zumba 1.15-1.45pm |
| Sept 6 | Titirangi Library | Careers Service – 11am-12 midday | |
| Sept 6 | Whau House, New Lynn | Opening of Whau House | |
| Sept 7 | Henderson Library | Taster classes -Tai Chi 1.30-2pm Taster classes – Pottery 10am -12midday |
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| Sept 7 | Massey Library | ACE Space database demonstration 10am -11.30am | |
| Sept 7 | New Lyn Library | Taster classes –Geneology 9.30-3.30 Taster classes – digital scrap booking 9.30am -12 pm |
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| Sept 7 | Te Atatu Library | Taster classes – Sign Language 10-11am | |
| Sept 8 | Massey Library | Careers Service – website demo 2-3pm Taster classes – Essential French for travelers 10-11.30am |
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| Sept 8 | New Lyn Library | Taster classes – Card Making 10am-12 | |
| Sept 8 | Te Atatu Library | Learner Licence practice tests 11am-12 Taster classes – digital scrap booking 10am -12 midday |
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| Sept 9 | Glen Eden Library | Taster classes – Gardening 1pm-2pm | |
| Sept 9 | Henderson Library | Taster classes – Geneology 9.30-3.30pm | |
| Sept 9 | Massey Library | Careers Service – website demo 2-3pm | |
| Sept 9 | New Lyn Library | Careers Service – website demo 11am-12 midday | |
| Sept 10 | Glen Eden Library | Whau Project Information-New Lynn Community Education House 10am-12 | |
| Sept 10 | Henderson Library | Careers Service – website demo 11am-12 | |
| Sept 10 | Massey Library | ACE Space database demonstration 10am-11am Taster classes –Taniko/flax weaving |
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| Wellington | Sept 8 | Literacy Aotearoa Wellington & the Wellington ACE Network | International Literacy Day scrabble event in Cuba Mall 12midday - 2pm with Wellington Central MP Grant Robertson |
| Sept 8 | Newlands Community Centre | Sign language taster class at Newlands Community Centre, 9 Batchelor Street, 11am-12 noon. DeafAotearoa will be running free classes. The class will run for six weeks. The coordinator is Donna Wilson ph 477 3724. | |
| West Coast | Sept 6 | Buller ACE Network | Opening Evening with the Mayor at the Sue Thompson-Casey Memorial Library - Westport, 6.30-8.30pm. Drinks & nibblesSocial English Group - Graduation, 7pm Buller REAP |
| Sept 7 | World Literacy Day Annual Scrabble Competition at the Library. School teams v community | ||
| Sept 8 | Buller Community Development Co - Open day for Engineering/Blacksmithing course | ||
| Sept 9 | Scrabble or Quiz Evening. All welcome | ||
| Sept 10 | Power Point Presentation workshop in-conjunction with Tai Poutini Polytechnic and Buller REAP, 9am-3pm. Registration Westport TPP Campus, $35, incl workbook | ||
| Westland | Sept 7 | Westland Network | Learner Expo @ Karoro Learning Centre Hall, 180 Tainui St, Greymouth 9am-3pm |
| Whangarei | Sept 6 | Library | Weaving, keyboard skills, pastel sketching demonstrations |
| Sept 7 | Library | Circus Kumarani to perfom. Tonya Russell & Whangarei Paents Centre provide information | |
| Sept 8 | Library | Literacy Whangarei celebrates International Literacy Day | |
| Sept 9 | Library | English Language Partners discussion groups and quizzes with new migrants | |
| Sept 10 | Library | Deborah Gillespie from Kamo High School presents Pastel Portraits | |
| All week | Whangarei ACE Network | Displays at all libraries and Polytechnic Campuses. Nordic walking outside City Library |
Launch 2010
This year's launch is being hosted by the Southern Network and will take place at Te Rau Aroha Marae, Bluff on Monday, September 6 commencing with a Pōwhiri at 9.30am. For more information contac maryg@paradise.net.nz
Media Release
August 28th - Northland Scoops Adult Learning Awards
Contact
Mary Gavigan
Ph 04 971 4416
Mob 021 058 8768
email maryg@paradise.net.nz
Click here to download a generic version of this release for regional publications.
Promotional Material and Nomination Forms for Awards
Click here to download a PDF file of the 2 new posters for ALW/HTM 2010.
Click here to download a PDF file of the 3 posters used for ALW/HTM in 2009.
Please provide feeback about these to ALW/HTM Coordinator, Mary Gavigan - maryg@paradise.net.nz.
ALW/HTM Logo 2010 - new ACE colours - Download jpg here.
Awards 2010
AWARD Information - Download word doc here.
Certificates
Commendation - Download PDF here, or an editable doc here.
Exceptional - Download PDF here, or an editable doc here.
Innovative - Download PDF here, or an editable doc here.
Outstanding - Download PDF here, or an editable doc here.
ALW/HTM 2010 Nomination Form - Download PDF here .
Dynamic Community Learning Awards - Download entry form here.
Media enquiries:
Mary Gavigan
t: 64 4 971 4416
m: 021 058 8768
e: maryg@paradise.net.nz
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.
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 6-12 September 2010 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:
- hold open days to allow members of the local community to come and explore learning institutions in a friendly casual atmosphere
- offer free sample classes as a way of letting people find out for themselves how fulfilling learning can be
- hold learning fairs and expos with stalls representing the activities and achievements of learning
- organise for learning providers to visit workplaces, community centres, galleries etc. to offer sample learning experiences
- organise exhibitions of student works and achievements
- hold sausage sizzles and family picnic days as a way of letting people get to know the learning organisation in a friendly pressure-free way
- hold special days to target specific community groups, such as Seniors Online Day that invited older members of the community to take part in learning about computing
- charter a learning bus to take information about learning opportunities to remote areas
- set up learning information stands in shopping malls, outside supermarkets and in popular lunch areas. The stalls offered information about learning opportunities and offered performances, basic skills workshops and similar activities
- organise a public debate on a hot learning topic
- conduct a competition, offering something from a learning institution as a prize
- organise events to feature and celebrate past adult learning achievers
- organise a walking tour of adult learning venues in a given area, encouraging participants to collect a stamp in a passport at each and then hand in the completed passport for a prize at the end (e.g. a cap or t-shirt)
- offer practical sessions on how to teach others.
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 and Sonny Harrison.
National coordinator
National Coordinator is Mary Gavigan.
Regional coordinators
Click here to download a Information Guide for Regional Coordinators and others planning events.
Each region has an ALW/HTM Coordinator who oversees regional activities and initiatives. For contact details click here.