Leading Elderly and Adult Development -LAB

Notes on Status Artis

Italy - Lombardia

Grundtvig Project502057-LLP-1-2009-1-IT-GRUNDTVIG-GMP

The “Dowry” system in LombardiaThe “Dowry” system in Lombardia

No LLL course is funded directly by R.L. to educational organizations

A virtual dowry is given to the “would be” student who spends it where he/she finds the best offer for him/her

Every interested person has to enter a “process” Every person who needs to be supported to find a

new job, has to enter a “process”

The “dowry” process Guidance /counselling– first interviews where the

basic needs and goals are defined Competence check and evaluation – to define

existing competences and find out what’s missing in order to reach the goals (or getting closer to them)

According to his/her need the person can start a coaching experience or start a course

PERSONALIZATION

Courses can be either chosen from a very large depository of “traditional Courses” (especially vocational)

Or they can be personalized activities (geared to 1 to 3 people). In this case they are considered part of the coaching experience, and they are aimed at supporting the student so that he/she can reach his/her goal

No real standards for personalization have been set

A “naif experience”THE COMPLIMENT A “naif experience”THE COMPLIMENT PROJECT-whyPROJECT-why

how do we keep people interested and involved in what they are doing, even if they are doing a hard job (both from the physical and the psychological point of view) and how do you contrast burn out in social workers ?

How do you make people with low-qualifications willing to enter LLL projects?

THE COMPLIMENT PROJECT - learning

Learning is not something that takes place outside the learner: it’s something that comes out of an adjustment of old bits of knowledge to new bits of knowledge, and the new system that comes out of it is a new way of seeing the world. A new attitude, a new thought on how things are

.. The problem is not “how many times the teacher has given the information” but how much of the information the students have chosen to remember.. People learns only those things that they recognize as useful for themselves.

The real question seems to be: who’s in charge of the learning process?

LEARNING ON THE JOB

Sometimes our learning process starts because somebody else decides we have to learn, and sometimes we are the ones who take the decision to do it. If we’re talking about learning on the job, only if there’s a mixture of the two, the learning process has a positive result: the learner must find a meaning in what he/she is learning and the management must see the learning process as a positive way of obtaining better results in the working process

When we are dealing with low-educated people the involvement process are hard to trigger

Learning processLearning process

Knowledge

Self imageAttitudesValues

MotivationIndividual characteristics

MOTIVATION

TALENTS

ATTITUDES

Deep level: more difficult to develop

Surface: easier to develop

Workers with low educational level (average 9/10 years of formal schooling)

Older workers (over 40) or people having worked for a long time doing the same job

The risk: widen the gap between different generation of workers, by centering all our activities on one group. Need for a common language among all workers, and common goals (personal well being . connected to clients’ well being, and other workers well being

Two main areas of training were identified: COMMUNICATION EMPOWERMENT IN DAILY WORK

PILOT

METHODOLOGIES

Neuro Linguistic Planning (NLP) to allow a common personal and easy approach to communication techniques

Coaching to motivate people and to support them reaching their goals.

Self Directed Learning Holistic techniques to favor a new

approach to personal well being and to cope with stress.

Self Directed LearningSelf Directed Learning SDL is a learning process that is directed, operated

and controlled by the individual; It is a process in which each person takes the initiative

(with or without the help of others) SDL is self-directedness: it depends on who is in

charge--who decides what should be learned, who should learn it, what methods and resources should be used, and how the success of the effort should be measured.

Learners should be supported in finding different ways for reaching and measuring their success in learning (success has many different faces..)

Adult learners can be encouraged to use critical thinking skills (taking decisions, choosing, evaluating)

Not recommending a self-directed learning approach if it is not congruent with the learners' needs.

How canSelf Directed Learning be supported