CONFINTEA V1 Regional Pre-Conference

Budapest, December 2008

soitu@uaic.ro

Adult education denotes the entire

body of ongoing learning processes,

formal, nonformal, informal by which

persons:

• develop their abilities,

• enrich their knowledge,

• improve their technical or

professional qualifications .

2. Demographic2. Demographic* ageing* ageing

* migration* migration

3. Social3. SocialSocial Social InclusionInclusion

5. Personal5. PersonalDevelopment

4. Political4. PoliticalMaintenance/Maintenance/

development ofdevelopment ofdemocratic democratic

societiessocieties

(Helen Keogh, Summary Report)

c. 6/7 countries c. 16 countries c. 6/7 countries c. 16 countries cc.10/11 countriescc.10/11 countries

Systemic approachSystemic approachEnabling legislationEnabling legislation Partnership/ Partnership/ decentralization decentralizationStakeholder financeStakeholder financeFlexible, integratedFlexible, integratedGood levelsGood levels

Coherent systemCoherent systemQuality frameworksQuality frameworksIPD/CPD of personnelIPD/CPD of personnelM&EM&EInforms policyInforms policy

PolicyPolicyLegislationLegislationGovernanceGovernance

FinancingFinancingProvisionProvisionParticipationParticipation

QualificationsQualificationsQualityQuality

ResearchResearch

FragmentedLegislative basis

Little partnership atany level

Very limited financingRigid/‘Schooling’

approachVery low levels

DisjointedLimited concern

Sporadic M&E

Sporadic(Helen Keogh, Summary Report)

Spectrum of State InvolvementSpectrum of State Involvement

Mixed modelMixed model

‘‘Public service’Public service’modelmodelALE as ‘public ALE as ‘public good’good’Strong Strong involvementinvolvementof stateof state

Mixed modelMixed model ‘‘Market’Market’modelmodelALE as ‘privateALE as ‘privategood’good’MinimalMinimalinvolvement ofinvolvement ofstatestate

Position dictated by:Position dictated by:

History History and/orand/or Ideology Ideology and/orand/or

ResourcesResources Sweden - Germany - Switzerland Sweden - Germany - Switzerland - Poland - Poland

(Helen Keogh, Summary Report)

• • Economic, social and/or cultural Economic, social and/or cultural policypolicy• • Social movementSocial movement• • Learning for a living & learning Learning for a living & learning for livingfor living• • HRD/employability HRD/employability • • Knowledge economy & knowledge Knowledge economy & knowledge societysociety• • More & better jobs More & better jobs • • A public good & a private goodA public good & a private good• • Political control & market controlPolitical control & market control• • Quantity & qualityQuantity & quality

• • Least regulated element of LLLLeast regulated element of LLL

• • Specific legislation for VET Specific legislation for VET

• • Specific legislation for ‘second Specific legislation for ‘second chance’chance’

• • Specific legislation for non-formal Specific legislation for non-formal ALE ALE

• • Integrated legislation for formal Integrated legislation for formal and non-formal ALE. ( Romaniaand non-formal ALE. ( Romania isis inin fullfull implementationimplementation processprocess ofof EuropeanEuropean legislation)legislation).

• Multi-source - stakeholder co-financing

–Employers ; – Individuals– Public authorities; – Civil society– Foreign funders: for countries

in pre-adher stage to EU Romania benefited of funds in this way: for instance IIZ-DVV Germany has financed 16 AERC and the Master of Adults Education from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Iasi.

Benchmark – 12.5% of adults aged 25-64 in E&T inany 4-week period by 2010 in EU-27• 2000 - 7.1% - 2007 - 9.7%• 2006 - 2.3% of adults participated in formal AL;6.4% participated in non-formal AL• 7 European countries already achieving 2010 target. (What is going to happen to other 20 countries from EU? How about the rest of European countries?)• USA – >50% of adults aged 16+ in some form ofALE in 2001

Depending on studies:• Adults with high level of education are > 6times > likely to participate than low skilled–3 times > likely to participate if have at leastupper secondary level

Depending on age:• Age - persons aged 55-64 participate 4 timesless (4.6%) than persons aged 25-34 years(15.5%)– 61% of aged 55+ have never used a computer

• More women than men in ALE• Participation in CVT of employed womenranged:– from > 55% in DK, FI, SE– to < 10% in EL, HU, IT– and 1,6% in RO• The rate of participation of employed menranged from 50% in DK to < 1,6% in RO• Gender not significant for ICT skills but age is

• Adult vocational education & training (VET) including IVT and CVT• ‘Second-chance’ ALE - ‘first-chance’?• Liberal, popular, general, non-

vocational non-formal ALE - social and cultural

policy and/or social movement• Adult tertiary education –Armenia; Russia

• Communication in the mother tongue - 1st key

competence for LLL• IALS (OECD 1997; 2000) - 25% - 50%+ of

adults lacked literacy levels considered minimum for life & work - not just minorities/migrants –> - > mobilisation of forces

• A shift from a skills-based approach -> development of competences for processing information & generating knowledge

• Multiple approaches – as learning support; stand-alone; integrated - workplace; family; themed

• 13+ m additional jobs, many at the highest qualification level, 2006 – 2015

• Employers - major providers of ALE in many countries but SE Europe, CIS • Majority of ALE in workplace • Spread in volume of training - 2005 – Finland & Sweden joint first - 50%- 60% of employees reached at work –Most Southern, Central and Eastern MS - barely 20% reached & < 20% in BG, PL,

RO

• Not covered by explicit public policy, action

priorities or funding• In local communities & social movements;

in E&T institutions• Finland - programme for liberal ALE 2008– 2012 in cooperation with key stakeholders• Long tradition in Nordic & other countries of democratic learning/popular enlightenment through residential and day FHSs, study associations &/or study circles

• For more than 170 years exist parents-schools

• Popular Universities • At the beginning of XX century, Romania

was considered Europe’s Japan for education

• After 1948 is more important the political dimension. That produce the separation between Romania and the developed countries of Europe.

• FR, IE, MT & UK have NQFs (4)

• 17 countries, including Romania, progressing

development of overarching

NQF

• 7 countries not yet formally committed to NQF

• SE Europe, CIS and Russian Federation – through

IPA & EPN

• EQF - 2010 - MS to relate national qualifications

to

EQF

• Quality explicitly on the agenda, particularly for

VET - adults have access to ‘second-chance’• A Common Quality Assurance Framework (CQAF) (2004) - VET• European Network on Quality - 2005• 2008 - European Quality Assurance

Reference Framework (EQARF) to replace CQAF –• Nordic countries, AT & DE - advanced QA• CZ, RO & SI - introducing QA systems

Professional development of personnel a vital

determinant of quality of ALE –Data incomplete – Status, conditions & pay

– Full-time : part-time employees–Generally, not a regulated occupation–Many routes– In-service training rather than IPD?– Competence Profiles – CH; DE; FR; UK–Key competences study - EU

• Limited– Volume– Scope– Impact

• Needed– Infrastructure– A knowledge base– Culture of evidence-based policy-making– Interface for impact– Review

The relation between continuing education (CE) – adult education (EA)

Accent  on CE – School is essential for the future development of the person and for EA developing.

School is the source of joy for learning /joy of work Source of Continuing Learning skills

The effects of the economical crisis: For the developed countries, For the developing countries For the countries in transition The role of attitudes acquired by education

The relation learning - educationEducation = what remains after one has

forgotten everything he learned in school. « Steal» the superior attitudes! The role of local, regional and national

politics in this area.

• Policy

• Legislation

• Governance

• Financing

• Provision

• Participation

• Qualifications

• Quality

• Research

Educational Sciences Institute, Bucharest; Lifelong Learning Institute, “Alexandru

Ioan Cuza” University Iasi; Adults Education Institute, University of

West, Timisoara, financed by DVV Bonn Research projects of Culture Minister

“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University

Iasi - ROMANIA

Research Center recognized by the National University Research Council

http://iec.psih.uaic.ro/

Learning theories; Research methods in education; Strategies of communication; Education of people with special needs; Management of vocational training

institutions; Continuing and adult education.

IIZ/DVV Bonn Germany – in the European project aimed and creating an interuniversity network: European Master in Management of Adult Education;

Hanover University, Germany – in the European project aimed and creating an interuniversity network: European Master in Management of Adult Education;

New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria - in the European project aimed and creating an interuniversity network: European Master in Management of Adult Education;

University of Perugia, Italy and CESI, Paris – co-operation in Tempus program on Social Politics;

The Autonomous University in Barcelona, Spain;

The University of La Laguna (Centro Superior de Educacion), Tenerife, Spain in the National Master’s module on Conflict Mediation, offering to the students the opportunity of studying abroad;

University of Denver, USA.

2004 - 2006 Socrates- Grundtvig 1, No. 11493-CP-1-2004-1-PL- GRUNDTVIG - G1, “TEACH -Teaching Adult Educators in Continuing and Higher Education”. Partners :

Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń - Poland European Association for the Education of Adults, Bruksela - Belgium University of Bielefeld, Germany Hanover University, Germany Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education

Association IIZ/DVV, Bonn - Germany Latvian Adult Education Association, Riga - Latvia University of Pecs, Hungary Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas - Lithuania Polish Association for Adult Education, Szczecin - Poland “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania New Bulgarian University, Sofia - Bulgaria Bogazici University, Istanbul - Turkey Universities Association for Lifelong Learning, United Kingdom University of Stirling, United Kingdom

MEDIAEC Platform for interdisciplinary research – Effective Tools for Development- Innovation of Education and Interdisciplinary Research in Training,Communication and Services 1,5 mil. Euro

1. VS - The Videoconference System 2. LF-NTE Laboratory of training for new educational

technologies (NTE); 3. LPUFE - Laboratory for production and use of educational

films; 4. LEEP - Laboratory for evaluation and professional

expertise.  The MEDIAEC Platform has a binding role between platforms

and other research laboratories in universities, contributing to simultaneous connections between research units of the university and other similar institutions in the country and abroad.

For exemple: JAPAN SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY -