Council's Declaration
Edmonton is a City of Learners, a city where people of all ages embrace learning as a fundamental component of their personal, social and work lives.
The Learning City Initiative aims to stimulate the creation of conditions in which Edmontonians at all stages of life can access meaningful opportunities to: learn to know, learn to live together, learn to do, and learn to be.
Many opportunities for collaboration among the partners in the Learning City Initiative will be explored, while respecting the mandates and the autonomy of all involved. Working together we can achieve measurable improvement in learning outcomes.
As a City of Learners, we celebrate the excellence our community has already achieved in learning, and we set our sights on even greater success for individuals, institutions, industry and our city as a whole. The challenges of a complex and competitive world demand nothing less than conceiving of learning as an organizing principle in our community.
Related Documents
This report puts forward Terms of Reference for the Edmonton Learning City Initiative.
Measurement, supplemented by local evaluation and assessment already occurring here in Edmonton, is an important component of this initiative. The following are measurements related to Edmonton’s performance for 2010.
This map indicates proportion of adult prose literacy at level 2 and below, age 16 and older. Prose Literacy relates to understanding and using information from texts.
Health Literacy: Proportion at Level 2 and below. The degree to which individuals can obtain, process and understand the basic health information and services they need to make appropriate health decisions.
Related Links
The CLI is designed as an independent and consistent tool that may assist communities in measuring aspects of the impact of their learning community strategies and policies.
“The Canadian Council on Learning is a catalyst for lifelong learning, promoting and supporting evidence-based decisions about learning throughout all stages of life, from early childhood through to the senior years.”
Paper that discusses “optimizing economic and social well-being through lifelong learning for all”.
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