ACTRAV

LABOUR EDUCATION & TRAINING METHODOLOGY

VALUES AND PRINCIPLES

• Building strong, independent, democratic and representative trade unions

• Strengthening solidarity

• Mainstreaming gender and participation of women in trade union training

• Decent Work+

LABOUR EDUCATION(1)

Education and training for the labour movement Labour education aimed at:

• Increasing the capacity of trade unions to plan and deliver educational programmes in line with their educational policies;

• Supporting the development and strengthening of specialized technical departments within trade unions;

• Within the broad notion of union capacity building labour education focuses its activities on building and strengthening a sustainable system of union education;+

LABOUR EDUCATION(2)

• Strengthening the process of organising and capacity-building of trade unions;

• Promoting gender mainstreaming in all the activities of trade unions

• Supporting networking with a particular aim of developing labour education networks at different levels, from national (sectoral) level to the regional dimension,

• Developing labour education at different levels, from the national level to the regional and international dimension.

• Supporting the ILO agenda on Decent Work and workers’ rights;+

Training methodology (1)

• Focus from trainer-centred to participant-centred• Extensive use of active learning methods: full

participation, validation of trade union experiences brought by course participants, trainers/facilitators, adaptation of the course content and pace via reports back and course assessments,

• Teaching methods based on a comparative approach/case studies/role playing and the extensive use of small group work

• Extensive use of IT and the Internet throughout course delivery

• Active role of course participant / design of work plans +

Training methodology (2)

• Labour education is education targeting unionists to help them to better perform their job and it is based on the use of training methodologies action oriented and able to bring together union members

Training methodologies:

• that are designed for bringing individuals into a collective dimension

• action oriented. Not based on the passive notion of just knowing more +

LABOUR EDUCATION:STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENTS (1)

• Creating a baseline information on labour education

• Developing a new generation of training activities that are made by a combination of delivery modes; online education, residential training and networking as a follow-up component

• Expand distance education courses and activities;

• Developing and supporting subject oriented regional educational networks;+

LABOUR EDUCATION:STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENTS (2)

• Provision of credentials or degrees with labour-oriented universities

• Target of 50% of women participation • Producing more relevant multilingual training

manuals and materials (library on-line and new packages plus fact sheets on specific subjects)

HOW TO IMPROVE LABOUR EDUCATION

• TRAINING SYSTEM / CYCLE

– Designing a labour education system

– The delivery of labour education

TRADE UNIONPOLICY PRIORITIES

POST-COURSE TRADE UNION

FUNCTIONS

LABOUR EDUCATIONTRAININGPOLICY

DEFINING TRAINING NEEDS

ANALYSING TARGET GROUP

THE TRAINING CYCLE / SYSTEM

DECIDING CONTENT

AND METHODS

IDENTIFYINGTRAINING

OBJECTIVES

PREPARINGEVALUATIONPROCESSES

ORGANIZING RESOURCES: STAFF/

FINANCES/MATERIALS.

DELIVERYLEARNING

MATERIALS/ACTIVITIES

STAFF SUPPORT

WORK PLANS

END-OF-COURSEEVALUATION

NETWORKING/FOLLOW-UP

ACTIVITY

DELIVERY OF LABOUR EDUCATION

ONLINEPRE-COURSE PREPARATION

RESIDENTIAL COURSEDELIVERY

FOLLOW-UP VIA RESIDENTIAL/

ON-LINE

Face to face labour education

ONLINEPRE-COURSE PREPARATION

ON LINE COURSEDELIVERY

FOLLOW-UP VIA RESIDENTIAL/

ON-LINE

On-line labour education

ONLINEPREPARATION

ONLINEand

RESIDENTIALCOURSE

DELIVERY

NETWORKING/REGIONAL

CONFERENCESON SPECIFIC

TOPICS

NETWORKING & LABOUR EDUCATION

WORK IN SMALL GROUPS

• ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LABOUR MOVEMENT IN THE AREA OF LABOUR EDUCATION: A SYSTEM APPROACH;

WORK IN SMALL GROUPS (2)

• Labour education policy of national/trade unions

• National system of labour education

• National programme on labour education (2008)

WORK IN SMALL GROUPS (3)

• 3-4 small groups

• Three documents / presentations reflecting Labour education policy of a national trade union centre

Basic structure and design of a national system of labour education

First draft of a national programme on labour education (2008)

Thank you!!!!