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Deep In. What Adult Educators Need To Know About Educating Low Educated And Low Skilled Workers - A Handbook

Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe (EPALE): by Dusana Findeisen

LearnersMot Erasmus+ project is being developed by the LearnersMot partnership. It addresses the issues of literacy and low educated as well as low skilled workers’ education. Prior to the literacy course that is yet to be developed and piloted, partners wrote a handbook to be used by adult educators intervening in companies.

The Deep In Handbook has been written with in mind the needs of low educated and low skilled workers, decision makers and companies and above all the needs of adult educators preparing for an educational intervention within a company. In today’s economy  companies  keep adapting  to rapid  changes. Professions and division of work are  ever less present since most of  workers have to perform a variety of tasks on their own or in a team. Consequently, the old hierarchy of jobs and tasks has been vanishing. Moreover, companies are ever more service and customer oriented. This requires from both workers and decision makers high level of flexibility and adaptability to changes. If they are not able to adapt, their job and company are at risk. In such situation it is impossible to rely only on single workers. On the contrary, decision makers have to trust all workers including those who are most vulnerable. They have to be confident that these workers can improve and have potentials.  READ MORE >>