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PASCAL Briefing Paper 24 - Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills Acquisition in Disadvantaged Populations: Evidence from the Nurture thru Nature (NtN) Experiment

Posted March 19, 2024 - 15:06

It is widely acknowledged that public schools in the US have failed to produce sufficient levels of high quality STEM education. The mathematics and science performance of minority and disadvantaged students has been especially troubling with blacks and Hispanics substantially underrepresented in the STEM labor market.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 22 - Harnessing Museums, Heritage and Education

Posted February 27, 2024 - 11:38

We are pleased to publish PASCAL Briefing Paper 22, entitled Harnessing Museums, Heritage and Education. PASCAL’s Learning Cities Network (LCN) on Harnessing Museums, Heritage and Education builds upon our prior Special Interest Group in cultural heritage and literacy inclusion, to now combine rich museum theory with innovative field-based practices. We engage with diverse stakeholders, including universities, world-leading museum and heritage sites, and governmental stakeholders, to address increasing needs for more informed, strategic and entrepreneurial professionals within the cultural heritage sector, and dialogical spaces for knowledge exchange on inclusive cultural literacy and practice.

Impact – Playing the Long Game | Briefing Paper 21, published in collaboration with the Centre for Research in Adult and Lifelong Learning, University of Glasgow

Posted February 7, 2024 - 15:20

The impact of research has been growing ever more important not only in its own right, but as a factor that feeds into funding decisions at both institutional and individual levels. We are therefore pleased to present a Working Paper written by the Director of PASCAL and CR&DALL, Professor Mike Osborne, in which he assesses the cumulative impact of research that assesses the cumulative effect of research that has systematically measured, mapped and analysed learning provision at urban/regional level, contributing internationally to developing learning cities over decades.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 20 - Learning with and from refugees: adult education to strengthen inclusive societies

Posted April 5, 2022 - 10:33

We are pleased to offer to subscribers the lstest PASCAL Briefing Paper published jointly with the Centre for Research & Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning (CR&DALL), Learning with and from refugees: adult education to strengthen inclusive societies, written by Dr Maria Grazia Imperiale and Professor Bonnie Slade.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 19 - SDGs and Education

Posted October 15, 2019 - 10:38

The 17 SDGs adopted by the United Nations in 2015 constitute a significant step up in scale and ambition in that they apply to all nations, whether developed or developing. Actions to achieve the Goals are demanding and education is seen as central.

PASCAL Briefing Paper 18 - Learning and Place: Profiling Places

Posted October 15, 2019 - 10:21

The relationship between learning and place extends the understanding of the learning city to a more local level, recognising that just as learning is fundamental to city and regional development, so it is to the character and opportunities that influence the quality of life in neighbourhoods and communities.

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