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Dear colleagues and networkers, we want to welcome you to the first issue of the ESREA Network on Adult Educators, Trainers and their Professional Development ‘Newsletter’. As many of you know, this ESREA Network was created very... more
Dear colleagues and networkers, we want to welcome you to the first issue of the ESREA Network on Adult Educators, Trainers and their Professional Development ‘Newsletter’.
As many of you know, this ESREA Network was created very recently. It was only September 2008 when the ESREA Steering Committee approved the proposal for establishing a new Network within ESREA (there are eleven active ESREA Networks at this time). Your genuine interest in and support of its orientation and aims, resulted to the Network’s first meeting that was held in Thessaloniki, Greece (6-8 November 2009) at the University of Macedonia. The main theme of the meeting was Educating the adult educator: Quality provision and assessment in Europe, and it was entirely devoted on issues of quality on the education and training of the adult educator in Europe. The meeting was a forum for exchanging theoretical considerations and empirical evidence, between researchers studying the different roles and tasks of the adult educator and trainer and the ways that these are assessed. The meeting also addressed issues relating to the quality of adult educators’ training (initial and continuing), their professional development as well as how these parameters could contribute to the overall quality of adult educational provision in Europe today. The conference organizing committee has already released the meeting’s proceedings in the form of an e-book. The e-book which is ERIC indexed, contains over 1000 pages with 111 contributions. The network’s next meeting is planned to take place in 2011 in Vienna.
We want to thank you for all the support and contributions, and we sincerely hope that you will enjoy this first issue.
As many of you know, this ESREA Network was created very recently. It was only September 2008 when the ESREA Steering Committee approved the proposal for establishing a new Network within ESREA (there are eleven active ESREA Networks at this time). Your genuine interest in and support of its orientation and aims, resulted to the Network’s first meeting that was held in Thessaloniki, Greece (6-8 November 2009) at the University of Macedonia. The main theme of the meeting was Educating the adult educator: Quality provision and assessment in Europe, and it was entirely devoted on issues of quality on the education and training of the adult educator in Europe. The meeting was a forum for exchanging theoretical considerations and empirical evidence, between researchers studying the different roles and tasks of the adult educator and trainer and the ways that these are assessed. The meeting also addressed issues relating to the quality of adult educators’ training (initial and continuing), their professional development as well as how these parameters could contribute to the overall quality of adult educational provision in Europe today. The conference organizing committee has already released the meeting’s proceedings in the form of an e-book. The e-book which is ERIC indexed, contains over 1000 pages with 111 contributions. The network’s next meeting is planned to take place in 2011 in Vienna.
We want to thank you for all the support and contributions, and we sincerely hope that you will enjoy this first issue.
The volume of information received from colleagues around Europe for this issue was overwhelming, and we wish to thank you all for your interest and your contributions. In this second issue of our network’s Newsletter the main article is... more
The volume of information received from colleagues around Europe for this issue was overwhelming, and we wish to thank you all for your interest and your contributions. In this second issue of our network’s Newsletter the main article is a very interesting research for adult educators, conducted by Professor Bruno Schettini & Assunta Aiello from the University of Naples.
There is also a remarkable number and variety of projects, events and publications this time that you will definitely find relevant to your work and interests.
We particualrly like to draw your attention to a European initiative on ‘Mainstreaming Intergenerational Solidarity’ (MATES) (page 25). This initiative has produced a pan-European dissemination of results of all Intergenerational Projects approved under Grundtvig since 2000. It has also encouraged the exploitation and exchange of good practices in the field of Intergenerational Learning, and improved the quality of education and training of different EU institutions. Main products of the Project are translated in 21 languages, disseminated to all EU countries, and non-EU countries through other institutions. Similar projects (like PALADIN and TRAMP, see pages 6 & 11) are already under way whereas others have only just been approved (Back to Work, in page 10).
Another very interesting project that is theme-relevant to the role of adult educator in Europe has also been completed. ‘Becoming Adult educators in the European Area’ (BAEA) (page 26) is a project targeting to researchers in the field of adult education, policy makers in field of general adult education, vocationally oriented adult education and liberal education, and adult education practitioners, with special reference to educators and trainers of adult educators to-be. The project has investigated the social and cultural factors that influence the individual formation of initial competences and qualifications in the field of general adult education, the factors influencing the construction of a professional identity among adult educators-to-be, and the relevant policies and practices affecting professionalisation processes in the field of general, vocationally oriented and liberal education.
Another development that will assist our network to be strengthened and grow even bigger is the construction of its own website. The website is 80% operational and all information is accessible at a pilot phase. Before officially launching the new website we would like to invite you to visit it at http://www.esrea-renadet.net and we expect your comments on layout and content so to make it as useful as possible to you.
Last but not least, we take this opportunity to announce to you that the first issue of the ‘European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults’ (RELA) is now available and accessible for downloading at: http://www.rela.ep.liu.se. We would also like to encourage you to make RELA visible through your contacts and networks in which you are engaged, both to potential readers, but also to potential authors.
The next issue (nr. 3) of our Newsletter will be released in late March 2011. We therefore would like to invite all of you who wish to make a contribution, to send it by Sunday, March 13, 2011. We sincerely hope that you will enjoy this issue as much as the previous and we look forward to your comments and contributions.
There is also a remarkable number and variety of projects, events and publications this time that you will definitely find relevant to your work and interests.
We particualrly like to draw your attention to a European initiative on ‘Mainstreaming Intergenerational Solidarity’ (MATES) (page 25). This initiative has produced a pan-European dissemination of results of all Intergenerational Projects approved under Grundtvig since 2000. It has also encouraged the exploitation and exchange of good practices in the field of Intergenerational Learning, and improved the quality of education and training of different EU institutions. Main products of the Project are translated in 21 languages, disseminated to all EU countries, and non-EU countries through other institutions. Similar projects (like PALADIN and TRAMP, see pages 6 & 11) are already under way whereas others have only just been approved (Back to Work, in page 10).
Another very interesting project that is theme-relevant to the role of adult educator in Europe has also been completed. ‘Becoming Adult educators in the European Area’ (BAEA) (page 26) is a project targeting to researchers in the field of adult education, policy makers in field of general adult education, vocationally oriented adult education and liberal education, and adult education practitioners, with special reference to educators and trainers of adult educators to-be. The project has investigated the social and cultural factors that influence the individual formation of initial competences and qualifications in the field of general adult education, the factors influencing the construction of a professional identity among adult educators-to-be, and the relevant policies and practices affecting professionalisation processes in the field of general, vocationally oriented and liberal education.
Another development that will assist our network to be strengthened and grow even bigger is the construction of its own website. The website is 80% operational and all information is accessible at a pilot phase. Before officially launching the new website we would like to invite you to visit it at http://www.esrea-renadet.net and we expect your comments on layout and content so to make it as useful as possible to you.
Last but not least, we take this opportunity to announce to you that the first issue of the ‘European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults’ (RELA) is now available and accessible for downloading at: http://www.rela.ep.liu.se. We would also like to encourage you to make RELA visible through your contacts and networks in which you are engaged, both to potential readers, but also to potential authors.
The next issue (nr. 3) of our Newsletter will be released in late March 2011. We therefore would like to invite all of you who wish to make a contribution, to send it by Sunday, March 13, 2011. We sincerely hope that you will enjoy this issue as much as the previous and we look forward to your comments and contributions.
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