North East Centre for Transformative Education and Research (NECTER)
is the coordinating body for RCE North East,
a network of individuals and institutions recognised by the
United Nations University as a Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) in
Education for Sustainable Development (EfSD).
It is part of a United Nations initiative to promote EfSD in a growing
global network.
Its aim is to celebrate the best in formal and non-formal education
in the North East of England, with a focus on transformative
education:
education for, through and about change.
We facilitate collaboration between existing projects, institutions and
individuals and encourage the development of new projects
for the benefit of people of all ages across the region.
Full details of our objects can be found in our newly established
constitution.
Anyone interested in the work of the RCE is encouraged to
come along to one of our events and get in touch with us:
e-mail
NECTER / RCE North East News
Newsletter No 1. March 2012
Newsletter No 2. May 2012
featured event:
6:30pm, Thursday 24th May
Cinema
Politica Newcastle
Culture Lab, Newcastle University
For the first time in Greece, a documentary produced by the audience.
Debtocracy seeks the causes of the Greek debt crisis and proposes
solutions sidelined by the government and the dominant media.
Aris Chatzistefanou and Katerina Kitidi discuss with economists,
journalists and intellectuals from all over the world, who describe
the steps that led Greece to the current debt trap –to debtocracy.
The documentary follows the course of countries like Ecuador,
which created Audit Commissions, and tracks the similar process in Greece.
Following the film we will have a discussion with our special guest,
Prof Mary Mellor.
Mary's current research focuses on the financial crisis, money systems
and financial exclusion. Her research interests include the social economy
and alternative economics; co-operatives and other alternative economic
structures; ecofeminist political economy, ecological political economy and
feminist economics; ecologically sustainable and social just ‘sufficiency’
economics.
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