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Month: April 2020

Circulation of ELEVATION Newsletter 2

ELEVATION is now circulating its second newsletter, via its website and Facebook page. With an interest in raising the skills of adults on the margins of lifelong learning, this ERASMUS+ two years project (2019-2021), addresses marginalised and disadvantaged adults who have been distant from education, as well as adult education professionals, managers and other interested parties.

iGUIDE – Guiding my Own Career

iGUIDE aims to support workers, low-skilled workers and those in vulnerable employments to develop the core skills necessary to plan and manage their own career progression pathways. This Erasmus+ two years project (2019-2021) will achieve this aim by developing a suite of bespoke career planning tools and resources that will focus on building the skills of adult workers in three separate categories: skills for job readiness; skills for job seeking and skills for job retention.

The ability to conceive and plan a career progression pathway is one of the key determinants of success for people of all ages in Europe and iGUIDE will help people develop this ability.

For further information and updates on the project and its activities, please visit iGUIDE website and iGUIDE Facebook.

ARTSKUL Newsletter 2 available on project’s website

ARTSKUL The second newsletter of ARTSKUL project (2019-2021), that focuses on Music, Drama and Storytelling Resources for Competence Building with Marginalised Adults, is now available on the project’s website.

Updates on the project’s activities are constantly shared on the project’s website and the project’s Facebook.

Ed.G.E – Educating girls and boys for Gender Equality

This project anticipates to enhance the education and awareness of girls and boys through the implementation of an educational methodology based on creative art/cultural practices, so that they can challenge social norms, gender stereotypes and roles that encourage or condone violence and promote gender equality and respect for others.

ELEVATION – Raising the skills of adults on the margins of lifelong learning

The ELEVATION project proposes to develop a new learning framework to attract those furthest from the mainstream back into education and training. The project will develop the following intellectual outputs to help achieve its objectives:

  • IO1 – A suite of 24 thematic mini-learning format resources for key competence acquisition that embed learning in artistic disciplines; cultural disciplines; digital and social media; sport and hobbies.
  • IO2 – An in-service training programme and handbook to support adult and community educators to harness the full potential of the bespoke embedded learning resources provided.
  • IO3 – A community learning festival planning handbook that contains all the necessary plans and resources to organise a community learning festival.
  • IO4 – A bespoke e-learning portal to ensure that marginalised adults have access to all learning resources provided on a range of fixed and mobile devices.
  • IO5 – A thought provoking policy paper to fuel the policy debate among adult education authorities.

iGuide – Guiding my Own Career

iGUIDE aims to support workers, low-skilled workers, and those in vulnerable employments to develop the core skills necessary to plan and manage their own career progression pathways. It will achieve this aim by developing a suite of bespoke career planning tools and resources that will focus on building the skills of adult workers in three separate categories: skills for job readiness; skills for job seeking and skills for job retention. The ability to conceive and plan a career progression pathway is one of the key determinants of success for people of all ages in Europe and iGUIDE will help people develop this ability.

ARTSKUL – Music, Drama and Storytelling Resources for Competence Building with Marginalised Adults

ARTSKUL project proposes an innovative service that uses performance arts disciplines, including music, drama, and storytelling, to build a suite of embedded learning educational resources to shape key transversal skills of low skilled adults. Partners are convinced that the traditional ‘sage-on-the-stage’ model of education is of little initial value in the current context. If educators are to attract adults on the margins of provision, a new, more holistic approach to teaching, is required. In a pedagogic context, the performing arts of storytelling, drama and music have faded into the background and are rarely now considered as appropriate techniques for key competence building. However, in the current context, with the low levels of literacy and numeracy within the marginalised adults, activities focusing on storytelling, drama and music, could be considered as effective techniques to help overcome social and cultural barriers and build key competences among the marginalised adult communities.

ARTSKUL partners will develop a toolkit of embedded learning resources to build basic skills and competences that are based around the different performing arts disciplines; a digital skills training framework; an in-service training programme for adult educators; and a bespoke online learning environment for adult learners and adult educators.

CoDe – Coaching for staff professional development in Education

CoDe project aspires to explore the experience and best practices of partner countries in using coaching as a tool for more effective change management and creation of a supportive and growth oriented environment, and to identify the opportunities that coaching provides for staff development and collaboration.

CoDe consortium aims to reach the following results:

  • A completed desk research of current state of coaching in staff development both in business and educational settings;
  • Raised awareness on coaching techniques and methods to improve staff development through learning visits, follow-up workshops, dissemination, and multiplier events;
  • Developed digital resource book for educators and schools to use for building supportive and growth-oriented environments;
  • Built capacity of school educators in using coaching techniques and methods through workshops and multiplier events using the developed digital resource book;
  • Informed public and local education authorities of the value of using coaching techniques and methods to lay the foundation for introduction of coaching in school plans.

Digital Resource Book