Future Forum 2013 - Norman Longworth
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The document outlines 15 roles that local governments can take to help create a learning city. These include leading a task force to implement a learning city strategy, organizing lifelong learning courses for professionals, commissioning studies on learning policies and progress, activating a learner's charter that establishes citizens' right to learning, and legislating a business strategy for implementing lifelong learning. The roles aim to promote learning as a desirable activity, encourage active citizenship through sharing knowledge, and transform the city into a prosperous learning entity.
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- 1. CREATING THE LEARNING CITY - THE ROLE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT 1. Leads a local Task Force or Steering Group to examine how A Learning City can be implemented 2. Organises the development and delivery of courses, seminars and workshops on Lifelong Learning to professionals and key implementers in local government and its institutions 3. Commissions studies and surveys to provide information on Learning City policies, progress and performance in all the city’s institutions and workplaces 4. Activates a ‘Learner’s Charter’ which sets out every citizen’s entitlement to learning and the actions the city will take to fulfil its commitment 5. Legislates a full business strategy for the implementation of Lifelong Learning and measures and monitors its progress in all its institutions and workplaces 6. Generates Lifelong Learning knowledge and action through proactive local and regional promotional campaigns and innovative marketing strategies 7. Organises a programme of Learning Festivals and other events which stimulate people to take up learning. 8. Vitalises the public acceptance of learning as a desirable and pleasurable activity through promotional campaigns such as advertising, billboards, local radio, websites, mass distribution of leaflets etc 9. Encourages Active Citizenship and the sharing of knowledge, expertise, values, skills and talents for the benefit of the whole community 10. Restructures the financing of Learning through integrated budgets, resource sharing, including human resource, and community involvement 11. Nurtures people into learning through Personal Learning Plans, Guides, Mentoring, the development of Learning Counsellors and Learning Leaders 12. Motivates citizens through innovative recognition and reward systems and events to celebrate learning as an enjoyable and personally rewarding activity 13. Enlists the contribution of all stakeholders to contribute to the development of the town, city and region as a learning communities 14. Nourishes international co-operation between the city’s institutions and workplaces and encourages the transfer of ideas, concepts and actions between them. 15. Transforms the city into a prosperous and stable Learning Entity by recognising the strong link between economic and social growth and activating the resources in community, culture, education, diversity and the environment for both The initial letters form the determinants of a successful Learning City, Town or Region