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NEWSLETTER - No. 5
This project runs
from October 2006 until September 2008 with the financial support of the
European Community: Socrates, Grundtvig 1.
Content:
EU Project TRAIN: Final Conference: "Professionalization of Literacy and Basic Education: European
Trends"
Bonn, September 2nd
The conference took place in Bonn
and was attended by over 50 participants representing a number of EU
members including Germany, Ireland, Slovenia, Cyprus, France, the
Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and Poland.
The key theme of the
conference was the professionalization of literacy and basic education and
a number of speakers addressed this theme throughout the course of the
conference. |
Opening and
Welcome
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Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c.
Ekkehard Nuissl von Rein, Scientific Director, German Institute for
Adult Education (DIE) |
Monika Tröster, TRAIN
project coordinator, German Institute for Adult Education
(DIE) |
Marijke Dashorst, European
Commission, Directorate-General for Education and
Culture |
Keynote
Current
European policies and trends concerning literacy and basic
education
Mrs Marijke Dashorst, the National Expert
from the European Commission addressed the conference and in her key
note speech she highlighted the importance of lifelong learning and
projects to improve competences for the 21st century. She encouraged
conference delegates to seek funding available through the European
Commission to conduct research into the literacy and basic education
sectors which would inform policy at European level. |
TRAIN presentation - results,
products and recommendations Roundtable discussion and plenary
session
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TRAIN partnership (from
left): Elie
Maroun (ANLCI, France), Helen Murphy (WIT, Irland),
Estera Mozina
(SIAE, Slovenia), Bernhard Grämiger (SVEB, Switzerland),
Monika
Tröster (DIE, Germany), Klitos Symenonides (CAEA, Cyprus), Chair: Peter
Strijdonk, Director of Vlaams Ondersteuningscentrum voor het
volwassenenonderwijs (VOCVO), Belgium / ERDI board
member |
Presentation of basic
modules for literacy and basic education
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MODULE 1: SOCIAL
MARKETING
COMMUNICATIONS Helen Murphy, Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT,
Irland) |
MODULE 2: PRINCIPLES OF
ADULT LEARNING IN THE FIELD OF LITERACY AND BASIC EDUCATION - AN
INTRODUCTION Klitos Symenonides,
Cyprus Adult
Education Association (CAEA, Cyprus)
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MODULE 3: PROJECT WORK IN
LITERACY AND BASIC
EDUCATION Estera Mozina,
Slovenian Institute
for Adult Education (SIAE, Slovenia)
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MODULE 4: INDIVIDUAL
LEARNING AND ICT SKILLS IN LITERACY AND BASIC
EDUCATION Elie Maroun, National Agency to Fight
Illiteracy
(ANLCI, France)
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MODULE 5: COUNSELLING IN
LITERACY AND BASIC
EDUCATION Monika Tröster, TRAIN project coordinator,
German
Institute for Adult Education (DIE, Germany)
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A number of presentations and
workshops were conducted throughout the conference in which a review of
national reports on state of the art in the field of the
professionalization of literacy practitioners were presented and each
TRAIN partner presented the material (teacher training modules) that had
been developed as part of the TRAIN project.
The workshops also
addressed the areas of teacher competences, policy in relation to adult
education, literacy and basic education and qualifications for
practitioners. |
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Nadia Baragiola, Lire et
Ecrire,
Belgium
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Elisabeth
Fuchs-Brüninghoff,
Germany
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Literacy experts from Belgium and
Germany who were invited to evaluate the conference and the project
proceedings pointed out that there is a lot of expertise and experiences in
the field of adult literacy in different EU countries to which TRAIN made a
valuable contribution but there are not enough possibilities to exchange and
transfer innovation and examples of good practice among literacy
practitioners. At the end of the conference delegates summarized the
key issues and questions to consider for the future including: What does
the professionalization of the literacy practitioner mean? What
qualifications does the literacy practitioner need?
Finally delegates
agreed that there is a need for national policies and strategy in relation
to Literacy and Basic Education and that this process must be a consultative
one involving stakeholders in all areas in Literacy and Basic Education in
each country.
Text: Helen Murphy (WIT/Ireland) |
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Project-coordinator:
Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE)
German Institute for Adult Education (DIE)
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 38 53113 Bonn
Germany
T (+) 49 228 3294-306
F (+) 49 228 3294-399
Contact person:
Monika Tröster
Website:
www.die-bonn.de/train
Partner:
Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT)
Cork Road Waterford
IE-Co. Waterford
Ireland
T (+) 353 51302834
Contact person: Helen Murphy
Email:
Website:
www2.wit.ie
Agence nationale de lutte contre l'illetrisme - ANLCI
National Agency to Fight Illiteracy
1 Place de l'Ecole
BP 7082
FR-69348 Lyon Cedex 07
France
T (+) 33 437371867
F (+) 33 437371681
Contact person: Elie Maroun
Email:
Website:
www.anlci.fr
ΣYNΔEΣMOΣ EKPEDEFSIS ENHLIKΩΝ ΚΥΠΡΟΥ
Cyprus Adult Education Association - CAEA
Athalassas 24
CY Latsia 2221
Cyprus
T (+) 357 99470810
F (+) 357 22486714
Contact person: Klitos Symeonides
Email:
Andragoski center Republike Slovenije - ACS
Slovenian Institute for Adult Education
Smartinska 134a
Sl-1000 Ljubljana
Slowenia
T (+) 386 15842560
F (+) 386 15842550
Contact person: Natalija Žalec
Email:
Website:
www.acs.si
Schweizerischer Verband für Weiterbildung SVEB
Swiss Federation for Adult Learning
Oerlikonerstraße 38
CH-8057 Zürich
Switzerland
T (+) 41 44 311 64 55
F (+) 41 44 311 64 59
Contact person: Bernhard Grämiger
Email:
Website:
www.alice.ch |
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