North East Centre for Transformative Education and Research (NECTER)
is 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 new projects and methods to emerge
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 the many events taking place over the next few weeks,
and get in touch with us:
e-mail
featured event: Dreamland
6:30pm, Thursday 5th January
Cinema
Politica Newcastle
Culture Lab, Newcastle University
How much unspoiled nature should we preserve and what do we sacrifice for
clean, renewable energy? Dreamland gradually turns into a disturbing picture
of corporate power taking over small communities.
Dreamland is a film about a nation standing at cross-roads.
Leading up to the country’s greatest economic crisis, the government
started the largest mega project in the history of Iceland, to build
the biggest dam in Europe to provide Alcoa cheap electricity for an
aluminum smelter in the rugged east fjords of Iceland. Today Iceland
is left holding a huge dept and an uncertain future.
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