Workshops
The mutual learning of the partners will be structured around five two-day workshops. In each workshop, the host participant will prepare a short brief on their national picture and partners will contribute to discussions on the specific topic drawing on evidence from their own national context. Subsequent to the workshops, each partner will contribute a short paper on the impact or relevance of the content of the workshop for their national context and these will be drawn together by the workshop host with contextualising information on the topic of the workshop.
Graz / Austria a title
WS 1: Terminology: What are basic skills? What is vocational training? What does it mean to embed/contextualise/integrate basic skills and vocational training? How do they differ?
WS 4: Sustainability of programmes, testing and assessment: How do embedded courses relate to other basic skills and/or vocational courses? Who should be encouraged to take an embedded course? How should the basic skills of learners be assessed before, during and after the course? Should there be a hierarchy of assessment, with vocational skills valued above basic skills? What is the role of the European Qualification
Framework?
WS 1 Terminology Paper / WS 4 Background Paper Graz Workshop
WS 4 Results and Presentations Graz Workshop
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Zürich / Switzerlandm another title
WS 2: Researching basic skills in vocational education - evidence base and research gaps: what is the evidence base for embedded basic skills? What do we know about the acquisition of basic skills in formal and non-formal settings? What issues do researchers need to be aware of?
Embedded basic skills for speakers of other languages/ immigrants: What issues should course designers bear in mind when designing embedded basic skills courses for speakers of other languages/ immigrants? How might such courses differ from other embedded basic skills courses? Should we distinguish between the two?
WS 2 Results and Presentations Zürich Workshop
NAVET - Bulgarian National Agency for Vocational Education and Training: Workshop Dissemination
Bordeaux / France'm another title
WS 3: Trainer training and pedagogy: What do trainers need to know about the vocational area? Is there a need for specific training modules in this area? What should the content of these be? How does teaching on embedded courses differ from teaching on discrete basic skill courses? What is the relationship between the basic skills and the vocational trainer?
Sofia / Bulgaria'm another title
WS 5: Teaching and training materials: Is there a need for specific embedded materials or can practitioners adapt and use existing vocational materials? What are the key principles behind materials designed for embedded courses?
WS 5 Background Paper Sofia Workshop
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