People Power
Date and time:
Friday, October 1, 2010 - 09:00 - 14:30 Learning for Democracy and Social Action
This exciting one-day conference in York’s Guildhall is for everyone involved, or would like to get involved, in strengthening local democracy and effective citizenship including community activists, voluntary sector support providers and public authorities.
The keynote talk will be given by John Field, Professor of Lifelong Learning and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning at Stirling University,
There will be a wide range of participative workshops with activists’ input on examples of active learning for citizenship and participation including:
- Campaigning and social action
- Learning and cohesion
- The action/education cycle
- Participative democracy - involvement in services
- Community led planning
- Champions and leaders of social action
- Action through networking
- Developing the marginal voice
- Using the internet and social networks
The afternoon will be an opportunity to identify your ideas for actions and explore how we can work together to increase effective social action.
The event will also focus on next steps for active citizenship across Yorkshire and the Humber and ways of engaging with the Big Society agenda.
Please contact COGS if you would like to display material at the event or briefly present a topic in the afternoon’s Open Space section
People Power is organised jointly by RACLA (Regional Active Citizenship Learning Alliance in Yorkshire and the Humber) and Democracy Matters, in association with York City Council and COGS.
or email
mail [at] cogs [dot] uk [dot] net
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