It is the purpose of this validation tool, to make visible competencies that have been acquired by young people in various areas of activities outside formal learning. Making these competencies visible should be useful for a number of reasons:
This validation tool is designed to achieve the following objectives:
The manual in questions and answers format gives an elaborated overview of the validation tool. In particular it adresses:
The Best Practice Guide has been designed to help those who wish to use the validation tools.
The term ‘best practice’ is perhaps something of a misnomer. It could be better stated as a guide
towards appropriate and effective practice. There can be no single blueprint for best practice:
rather, practice has to be guided by the individual purposes and contexts of activity.
The guide is based on a series of studies of the use of the validation tools with socially
disadvantaged groups of young people: with young people form the Roma population in
Romania and in Greece and with young people from the Travellers community in Ireland.
The guide is intended to help practitioners in adapting and using the validation tool as part of
their own practice.
The participants of the course are to learn in the facilitator training - based on already
existing knowledge, abilities and hands-on skills – basic methods and techniques,
with the help of which informal competencies of disadvantaged young people can be
made visible. Participants/target group of the course are teachers, social education
workers and other members of the community of practice who want to support in their
job young people during the transition from school to work.
On the one hand the specific objectives comprise the imparting of the educational
policy background, the pedagogical principals, the pedagogical process and the normative-
ethical principles of making competencies visible, as on the other hand of
skills and abilities which build the basis of a successful realization of the procedure
proposed here to make competences visible. The contents were assigned to specific
levels, which on the one hand permit a change and rhythm, so care for the fact that
the participants are not uninterruptedly and in all topics preoccupied to the same extent,
lay down the relation between self-learning and attendance stage, as well as
facilitate the future evaluation of the realization of the course and the results by
transparent instructions referring to learning objectives to be achieved.
The DVD just as the internet video streams offer practical examples
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