Titre: AduEdu – Qualifications of Adult Educators in Knowledge Society (2004-2006)
Type de projet / activité :
Programme Grundvig.
The goal of the
Adu-Edu project is to develop and coordinate in-between participating countries
Framework of Qualifications (FQ) of the Adult Educator (AE) in Knowledge Society
and implement it in four areas: 1) in FQ development and assessment of professional
competency of AE; 2) in development of programmes & courses for training
of AE; 3) in setting criteria and designing means for evaluation of AE training
practice and 4) in linking adult education policy and strategy to the requirements
of Knowledge Society and the idea of Life Long Learning.
Inventory of results from previous initiatives, surveys, analysis and predictions,
theoretical modelling and implementation of the FQ in development of tools
and online services, consultations with the target groups (AE, developers
of programmes courses & modules for training of AE, managers, decision
makers and evaluators in the field of adult education) and promotion of services
are planned for the two year project. Virtual communication platform (VCP)
will be employed for supporting collaborative activities and provision of
service.
Methodology for development and implementation of the FQ, description of AE
practice in Knowledge society, the FQ of AE in Knowledge Society, interactive
tools and online services for target groups are envisaged as the main outputs
in the project.
Activities :
National representant and associated to the internal evaluation of the project.
Partners :
Coordinating institution: Centre
of Educational Studies at Vytautas Magnus University (CES) (Lithuania), Copenhagen
Course- and Eveningschool (KKA) (Denmark), Higher Education Quality Evaluation
Centre (HEQEC) (Latvia), General Workers’ Union (GWU) (Malta), Norwegian
Association for Distance Education (NADE), Romanian Institute for Adult Education
(IREA), Swedish TelePedagogic Knowledge Centre (STPKC) (Sweden), European
Institute of Education and Social policy (France).
Objectives:
The objectives of the project are:
• to determine (develop and coordinate) methodology for development
of the FQ and implement it into service development;
• to identify developmental trends of adult education and future vision
of the Adult Educators’ profession and to give functional description
of “Adult Educator in Knowledge Society”;
• to rank competencies of Adult Educator according to requirements of
Knowledge Society on profession of Adult Educator, inventory/utilize outputs
from previous initiatives and define qualifications and competencies of Adult
Educators (intrinsic to Knowledge Society);
• to develop FQ based on vision of Adult Educators’ profession
in Knowledge Society and introduce it to cultural-educational contexts of
participating countries;
• to develop tools and guidelines for use of FQ in adult education practice
and integrate them into an interactive on-line service for four target groups
(see point E in 3.1);
• to develop and sustain environment for communicating ideas of Knowledge
Society and LLL, application of FQ and usage of practical tools and guidelines
with target groups.
Target group:
Project is designed to meet the needs of four target groups:
I. Adult Educators: teachers of adults, tutors, counsellors, mentors, AE/LLL
managers, etc.
II. Developers of programmes, courses & modules for vocational training
and continuing education of adult educators.
III. Managers and decision makers in the field of AE.
IV. Evaluators: promoters of self-evaluation inside AE institutions, national
and international agencies for quality assurance of AE services, bodies of
accreditation of vocational training and continuing education of adult educators,
and bodies of certification of adult educators.
Products :
1. Shared methodological principals, methods and instruments for development
of Framework of Qualifications (FQ) and its implementation in service development
2. Definition of developmental trends of adult education and future vision
of Adult Educators’ practice and profession
3. Functional description of an adult educator playing different roles (mentor,
counsellor, tutor, promoter of learning organization/community/region etc.)
in the arena of adult education (focus on new functions)
4. Framework of Qualifications (FQ) of the adult educator in the Knowledge
Society (ideal model) and adaptations of it to specificity of cultural and
educational contexts of participating countries
5. Interactive service for target groups based on the FQ
For further information, please contact Laurence Emin or Jean Gordon
