OISE/UT and TVO—Partners in Lifelong Learning
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By Anila Sunnak

TVO and OISE/UT are working together on a range of exciting new projects in an emergent relationship in which two of the province’s most respected educational leaders promote lifelong education.

“We are thrilled to be working with OISE/UT – one of the world’s leading centres for teaching and research in education. Our evolving partnership is a natural fit, given our parallel goals of providing lifelong learning for Ontario residents. Together we can reach out to help – upgrade education, skills and knowledge – in the fast-paced information age we live in,” says TVO's Managing Director Nancy Chapelle.

Here are some of the joint initiatives to be broadcast soon on TVO:

• TVO’s weekday afternoon show More to Life presents a special live panel discussion based on OISE/UT Institute of Child Study Professor Janette Pelletier’s recent article in Orbit, “Schools, Families, and Communities,” Wednesday November 10 at 1:00 pm.

More to Life Host, Mary Ito

• OISE/UT professor David Livingstone’s Jackson lecture, The Learning
Society: Past, Present and Future Views to be featured on an upcoming Big Ideas (Saturdays and Sundays at 1:00 pm). This TVO program is aimed at students, educators, and all who are interested in intellectual pursuits (airdate TBC).

Also upcoming on Big Ideas in 2005, highlights of two upcoming OISE/UT
conferences:

• Teacher Education for the Schools We Need, examining the implications of current educational reforms for teacher education. This conference will focus on central issues in teacher education policy, research and practice, and will ask the question: what will teacher education in the future look like?

• The Future of Lifelong Learning and Work, is an international conference of interest to educators, researchers, government policy-makers, advocates, and concerned citizens. Discussion will include: the current significance of lifelong learning and work, multiple literacies in
learning and work, learning needs throughout life, what makes
apprenticeships work well and social justice issues.

For both conferences, TVO will be taping (and moderating) a free-flowing exchange of ideas during an introductory panel.

TVO and OISE/UT will also be sharing an ongoing article exchange in Orbit and TVOntario Magazine to keep abreast of each other’s activities and continue to build community and a synergy of ideas.

Orbit is OISE/UT's Magazine for Schools. Upcoming issue is Schools, Families, and Communities,  being featured on More to Life, Nov. 10.



Anila Sunnak
asunnak@tvontario.org
TVO Publicist (Information and Education Programming)
Communications Dept.
416.484.2890

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