LLinE Lifelong Learning in Europe

Workshops

WORKSHOP 1:
LEGISLATION, ENTITLEMENTS, POLICY AND TRENDS
Workshop Chair: Ms Magda Trantallidi

Themes:
- Is LLL a (human) right? Whose right?
- How do official documents, legislations and strategies regard LLL?
- Is there a gap between rhetoric and reality?
- What does the right mean in terms of legislation? What is the support of social partners?
- Is right to LLL an enticement?
- Equity aspects?
- Consumer rights and positive rights
- What about when rights collide with finances?
- Participation in LLL: European trends
- The role and responsibilities of different players in LLL: public sector, business and industries, voluntary organisations, individuals

Paper presentations:

Towards European Right to Adult Education: Reflexivity of Education Law in Plural States
Päivi Gynther, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

New visions and opportunities for older workers in the Nordic countries?
Tarja Tikkanen, International Research Institute of Stavanger AS (IRIS), Norway

Lifelong Learning as a Right? Universities in the Czech Republic
Petr Vavrin, Professor, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

The possibilities of using European Union "Cohesion policy" for the development of adults' education
Olga Balazhy, St. Petersburg Institute of Humanitarian Education, Russia

WORKSHOP 2:
INCLUSION, ADVOCACY AND EMPOWERMENT
Workshop Chair: Professor József Katus

Themes:
- The state of lifelong learning in Europe:
o Is it accessible to everyone?
o Disadvantaged groups?
o What can be done to improve the situation?
- How can LLL promote inclusion, empowerment, and democratisation?

Paper presentations:

Supporting Novice Teachers' Life-Long Learning through Virtual Mentoring
Ari Myllyviita, Viikki Teacher Training School of Helsinki University, Finland
Maija Aksela, The Unit of Chemistry Teacher Education, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland

Lifelong learning and/in the minority languages: right or privilege?
Maja Mezgec, Slovene research Institute (SLORI), Slovenia

NVL network Special groups and their needs
Ellen Stavlund, The Norwegian Association for Adult Learning (NAAL), Norway

WORKSHOP 3:
KEY TRANSITIONS ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
Workshop Chair: Ms Renée David Aeschlimann

Themes:
- How does LLL influence an individual’s lifespan: is there potential for emancipation?
- Transitions from education to working life; working life to retirement; one workplace to another; employment to unemployment and vice versa; unemployment / employment to entrepreneurship

Paper presentations:

School-work transition – an essential step in lifelong learning pathways
Maria José Gonçalves, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, FCT/UIED, Portugal

Connecting +55
Anna Grabowska, PRO-MED, Poland

Staying young, growing old and lifelong learning
Dominique Lapiere, De Groene Kans vzw, Belgium

Lifelong learning of students at the age of 50+ with an immigrant background
Kajsa Pösö, Adult Education Institution, Luleå, Sweden


Preliminary instructions for workshops

Workshops take place on Friday 30 January at 16.15–18.00. There will be four 15 minute paper presentations in each workshop, followed by discussion.

The goal of the three workshops is to draw together the experiences and ideas brought into the common pool of knowledge by the conference participants.

Each workshop is expected to draw up a synthesis of the workshop theme, including a) the current situation and developments, and b) what needs to be done in the future.

The synthesis will draw on the participants’ experience, paper and poster presentations and study visits. Each workshop will present their synthesis in the form of a SWOT analysis on the final day of the conference.

Click here for informationa about SWOT analyses