Models and Practices of Adult Education and Training

Teaching Methods

Presentations, individual and group research assignments; life stories.

Learning Outcomes

. Discuss historical evolution of thinking and practices of Adults Education and Training.

. Understand and compare some of the theoretical models specifically designed for Adults’ Education and Training.

. Characterize public, Portuguese and European policies of Adults’ Education and Training, questioning the practices resulting from that policies in light of theoretical models studied in class.

. Plan, develop and assess Education and Training activities, which better serve life projects and personal and collective needs of adult people.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Adults’ Education and Training: historical and conceptual perspectives.

a. Models of “Education for Life” and “Social Promotion”

b. Contributions by UNESCO in order to delimit ideological and technological dimensions.

c. Adults’ Education within the field of Permanent Education.

d. Adults’ Education and Training and Lifelong Learning.

2. Recent tendencies and specificities of Adults’ Education and Training.

3. Models and Practices of Adults’ Education and Training.

a. Andragogy.

b. Transformative Learning.

c. Culture Circles.

d. Life stories.

4. Validation of acquired experience as organizer of offer and demand of Adults’ Education and Training.

5. Recognition, Validation and Certification of Knowledge and Competences: goals and methodologies.