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Institution: Estonian Non-formal Adult Education Association (ENAEA)
Contact:
Tiina Jääger
Objectives:
The project aims at improving the quality and access to the European
adult educator training courses in the partner countries and at the
European level. The main goals of the AGADE project are the following:
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Testing and improving the approach of curriculum
building based on the set of criteria for a good adult educator
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Acquiring the methodology of adult education www-based
courses and building face-to-face and www-based (blended learning)
education modules for adult education practitioners
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Strengthening the adult educator`s network in Europe
through providing a Grundtvig 3 course with an international team of
trainers as the main output of the project
Description: Adult education is
never neutral. Educators are providing knowledge, organising education
and encouraging change based on the social, political and cultural
situation and priorities in the society and country at the same time
acting in a global world. Adult educators take responsibility for being
open to and responsible for personal development and social
intervention. Engaging in adult education means interaction, which
should be based on the democratic values of exercising freedom with
responsibility, the values of tolerance and solidarity. Adult educators
should help identifying and valuing the educational potential in diverse
social practices.
The project comprises the partners’ discussion of the curriculum
development based on the Minimum set of criteria for a good adult
educator and designing the core curriculum of the course at the European
level, what can be complemented and adapted for the use in the partner
countries.
The main outcome of the project ""A Good Adult Educator in Europe"" -
curriculum development project: AGADE No 114092 - CP – 1 - 2004 – 1 - EE
- GRUNDTVIG – G11 is the course "Towards becoming a Good Adult Educator".
Course philosophy
The four criteria groups of a good adult educator have been used as the
point of departure for the curriculum discussion in the AGADE project.
The criteria have been discussed and developed in 8 European countries;
and an agreed minimum set has been used for the basis of the European
course curriculum.
The goals of the course:
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to share experience, knowledge and perspectives of own
work
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to reflect on own practice, to be a reflective
participant - to empower adult educators as reflective practitioners
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to provide a supportive learning environment to the
practitioners in order to actively reflect on their practice in order to
enhance the quality of adult education and adult education practice
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to strengthen adult education as a field through building
an international network and partnerships
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