Workshop 3: Guidance and counselling

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Workshop 3 Guidance and counselling

• Questions

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KEY QUESTIONS FOR QUALIFYING THE ACTORS IN ADULT
EDUCATION GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING?

• Which targeted training should be given to adult
  education tutors AND programme managers to
  support them in the guidance aspects of their
  work?
• How to construct national training and
  qualifications pathways to enable persons to
  progress in a learner friendly way from
  non-expert to expert guidance roles?
• And also to support differentiated staff roles
  with respect to guidance provision in a three
  level service approach (self-help, a little help,
  intensive help)?

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KEY QUESTIONS FOR QUALIFYING THE ACTORS IN ADULT
EDUCATION GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING?

• How can the validation of non-formal and informal
  learning national systems be used to place value
  on the experience and work of persons who have
  been providing guidance informally to adult
  education participants for many years?

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KEY QUESTIONS FOR QUALIFYING THE ACTORS IN ADULT
EDUCATION GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING?

• How can EU resolutions, tools and instruments be
  used at national and regional levels both to
  lobby for adequate adult education guidance
  provision and,
• To inform the content of training programmes for
  adult education guidance practitioners?

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KEY QUESTIONS FOR QUALIFYING THE ACTORS IN ADULT
EDUCATION GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING?

• How can adult education guidance best fit in a
  lifelong guidance system involving different
  providers working in partnership?
• How can an evidence base be developed to make the
  case for adult education guidance provision?

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Further questions

• What do we know of existing policies,
  practitioners, institutions and learners in adult
  educational guidance?
• How can we build stronger links between
  professionals from different fields (e.g. social
  workers) who provide guidance for adults?
• How can we learn more about the effects of adult
  educational guidance (in a quantitative and in a
  qualitative way)?