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The Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
"At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living."
- Neil Postman, The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
As a long-standing community dedicated to sustainable lifelong learning on campus, the McGill Community for Lifelong Learning (MCLL) is hosting the symposium, The Challenge of Transformation: Lifelong Learning and Living in the 21st Century. The keynote speaker will be Christine O’Kelly, coordinator of the international Age-Friendly Network based in Dublin, Ireland at Dublin City University. This is an opportunity to participate in a first conversation about reshaping education for the future that will inspire the re-imagining of a university that values all of its students, its research and its community engagement equally. Together we will explore the possibilities revealed through discussions of Age-Friendly Universities/Cities, Cutting Edge Brain Research and Innovative Pedagogy in the context of rapidly changing technology and increased life expectancy. The symposium will be live streamed.
- Date: Friday, November 03, 2017
- Venue: McGill Faculty Club, 3450 McTavish St, Montreal, H3A 1X9
- Time: 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
- Host: McGill Community for Lifelong Learning (MCLL)
8:00– 8:45 / REGISTRATION
Pastries, Coffee, Tea, Juice.
9:00 – 9:30 / OPENING OF THE SYMPOSIUM
- Outline of the Day: Judith Schurman, MC
- Welcome from MCLL: Julie Wait, Past President
- Welcome and Blessing – Elders Jean Stevenson and Delbert Sampson
- Video address from the Former Governor-General of Canada, David Johnston
- Welcome from McGill: Ollivier Dyens, Deputy Provost, (Student Life and Learning) McGill University
9:30 – 10: 20 / KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Q&A
Christine O’Kelly, Coordinator, Age-Friendly Universities Network, Dublin City University, Ireland
Christine O'Kelly is the Age-Friendly University Network Coordinator at Dublin City University, Ireland. In November 2012, DCU became the first university in the world to embrace the Age-Friendly University (AFU) concept. Under Christine’s leadership, the Age-Friendly initiative has expanded from two universities in 2014 to sixteen spanning Europe, North America, and South East Asia.
10:20 – 10:45 / SETTING THE STAGE
William Kops, Extended Education, University of Manitoba
Older Adult Education and Canadian Universities
William (Bill) J. Kops is a professor in Extended Education at the University of Manitoba. He teaches courses in adult and continuing education with research interests on topics related to older adult education, higher education administration, and self-directed learning. His recent study entitled Older Adult Education and Canadian Universities focused on three broad questions: What is the state of older adult education? What are key issues affecting older adult education practice? What are future directions for older adult education at Canadian universities?
10:45 – 12:00 / INNOVATIVE WAYS TO TEACH, LEARN & LIVE
Panel Chair: Louise Plouffe, Former Director of Research, International Longevity Centre (ILC) Canada and Coordinator, WHO Global Age-Friendly Cities Guide
Louise Plouffe, PhD, was Director of research, ILC Canada until June 2017. A gerontologist and public policy analyst, Louise coordinated the World Health Organization’s (WHO) research on age-friendly cities and wrote the WHO age-friendly cities guide. She currently chairs the steering committee of Age-Friendly Ottawa for the Council on Aging of Ottawa.
PANELISTS
Karl Hele, Associate Professor and Director of First Peoples Studies, School of Community and Public Affairs, Concordia University
Karl Hele is a member of the Garden River First Nation (Anishinaabeg/Chippewa), Director of and Associate Professor in First Peoples Studies Program at Concordia University. Since completing his Ph.D. at McGill in 2003, he has published 13 articles, edited 4 collections of papers, co-edited three editions of the Algonquian Society proceedings and authored 2 monographs about alienation of his reserve’s land.
Kathleen Godfrey – Graduate Student & Friends: Multi-generational Campus Initiatives
Kathleen Godfrey is a graduate student at McGill pursuing a M.A. in Anthropology with a focus on conservation and land management strategies of Maasai pastoralist communities in Kenya. Kathleen was a 'floor fellow' in the McGill First Year Residence community for two years (2015-2017), a role comparable to Don or Residence Assistant at other Canadian and American institutions. As a floor fellow, Kathleen acted as a first-contact, support, and role model for hundreds of incoming McGill students, and contributed to a community based on anti-oppressive and safe(r) space values.
Jim Hamilton – Former Associate Director, Centre on Aging at the University of Manitoba, Canada’s First Age-Friendly University
As Associate Director (Community Engagement) from 2010–2016, Jim Hamilton collaborated with governments, senior serving organizations, seniors and other key stakeholders in Manitoba, in Canada and internationally, to foster effective partnerships in support of the work of the Centre on Aging. This included the Centre’s campus-wide leadership in guiding the adoption of the ten principles of an age-friendly university.
For over 30 years Jim provided leadership for the Government of Manitoba in community and regional development, recreation and health promotion.
12:00 – 1:30 / LUNCH & LUNCHEON SPEAKER
Lesley Fellows – Montreal Neurological Institute, Cognitive Neuroscience Unit. McGill University
Older, Wiser, Still Learning: The Neuroscience of Healthy Brain Aging
Dr. Lesley Fellows, MD CM, DPhil is Professor in the Dept. of Neurology and Neurosurgery. She completed her research training at McGill, Oxford, and the University of Pennsylvania, and her clinical training at McGill. Based at the Montreal Neurological Insitute, she is a cognitive neurologist who cares for patients with dementia or other brain disorders affecting memory, language or behavior. She is also a cognitive neuroscientist who studies the brain basis of complex human behaviors such as decision-making, problem-solving, and self-control.
1:30 – 3:30 TECHNOLOGIES & GENERATIONS
A Multidisciplinary, interactive Event
Paul Yachnin – Department of English, McGill University
Paul Yachnin is Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies at McGill University. He has served as President of the Shakespeare Association of America (2009-2010). His ideas about the social life of art were featured on the CBC Radio IDEAS series, “The Origins of the Modern Public.”
Andrew Piper –Department of Literature, Languages and Cultures and Director of .txtLAB, a laboratory for cultural analytics, McGill University
Andrew Piper is Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University. His work explores computational approaches to the study of literature and culture. Andrew engages in critical and creative uses of the tools of network science, machine learning, or image processing to think about language, literature, and culture at both large and small scale.
3:30 – 4:00 / BEYOND 200
The Future of Lifelong Learning and Living at McGill
Dr. Christopher Buddle, McGill Dean of Students
Christopher Buddle was appointed as the Dean of Students in August 2016, and brings experience in championing student rights and responsibilities, academic integrity, and promoting wellness for our entire community.
Gérald Cadet, Director McGill Bicentennial
Gérald Cadet was named Bicentennial Director in July 2016. He is responsible for developing and coordinating the strategy for activities and events related to McGill’s Bicentennial, which will commence with the Homecoming 2020 celebrations and will conclude with Homecoming 2021.
4:00 – 4:30 / WRAP UP
What have we learned?
Q&A
Ruth Allan-Rigby –Former President of MCLL and Chair of the Symposium Steering Committee
Ruth Allan-Rigby is the chair of the MCLL group organizing the symposium “The Challenge of Transformation: Lifelong Learning and Living in the 21st Century.” Ruth is the former nursing administrator at the Montreal General Hospital. She has served on the Board of the McGill Community for Lifelong Learning for several years, most recently as past president. She is also on the board of directors of the Westmount Historical Association.
Jennifer Cooke – Facilitation and Graphic Recording, Regroupement des Organismes Communautaires Autonomes Jeunesse du Québec (ROCAJQ)
Jennifer Cooke is Coordinator of Talent Development at ROCAJQ. Jennifer has over 15 years leadership experience driving community growth, program development and delivery, and relationship building for leading National and Provincial non-profit organizations. She is an experienced community organizer with exceptional facilitation skills. Jennifer is known for initiating social enterprise as a viable solution to community development as well as for the promotion of culture and arts initiatives in multiple sectors.
