CONSTRUCTING
COMPETENCE, ORIENTATION AND TRAINING
STRATEGIES FOR WOMEN WITH LOW QUALIFICATION
Grundtvig1, Socrates Programme of the Directorate
General for Education and
Culture of the European Commission
DESCRIPTION
OF THE PROJECT
In
the framework of activities and projects supporting
social and labour insertion processes for social disadvantaged
groups, this project arises from the necessity to
develop new approaches aiming at the construction
of professional competence of a social group with
labour insertion difficulties: women with low qualification.
The proposal is to develop new methodologies based
on the recognition of women's knowledge and capabilities,
which are acquired in different spheres of life (formal
education, labour experiences and life experiences)
as well as on its transference into the professional
field.
According to this
aim, it is necessary to develop new methodologies
and tools to make easier the process of identification,
assessment and development of competences and their
transference to the labour context.
The
project is based on the following hypothesis:
- To make the processes of labour insertion of women
with low qualification much easier, it is necessary
to start from their own experience and their non-formal
learning in order to recover them and transfer them
to labour market.
- It is possible to turn personal resources into professional
competences developing processes of reflection and
transference.
- The recovery and assessment of non-formal learning
and the development of personal abilities are key
tools for the improvement of employability of women
with labour insertion difficulties.
- It is necessary to go beyond a limited conception
of competences. This limited approach is based on
the technical elements of competences. We propose
to take a definition considering them as a set of
particular technical knowledge, basic requirements
for employability and labour behaviours of one person.
- According to this definition, "transversal competences"
are one person's set of skills, abilities and attitudes,
as well as the personal and cultural background accumulated
during a person's life experience, which has to be
mobilized, in a competent way, to act towards different
labour situations.
- The development of new self-evaluation tools in
competences will allow the detection of women's learning
necessities in competences, in addition to make easier
their participation as active subjects of their own
processes of labour insertion.
General Objectives ˇ To work with methodologies
of orientation and learning of transversal competences,
adapted to women with low qualification who aim to
improve their possibilities of labour insertion through
obtaining and updating their competences.
ˇ To establish learning models that emphasise personal
abilities and personal resources (transversal competences)
obtained in formal and informal contexts, as well
as the ability to transfer these resources to new
contexts. Specific Objectives ˇ To design
an interactive tool of self-evaluation of competences,
promoting the recognition and assessment of competences
acquired in personal and family experiences of women
with low qualification. This interactive tool is addressed
to professionals and institutions with services of
orientation, learning and/or insertion.
ˇ To promote new strategies and innovative methodologies
to develop learning and transference processes of
personal abilities and resources (transversal competences)
to the labour market.
ˇ To incorporate gender and intercultural approaches
into processes of orientation, assessing formal and
informal women's learning and transferring them to
projects of personal and professional development.
ˇ To improve the possibilities of professional insertion
of women with low qualification. Partnership
ˇ SURT, Associació de Dones per a la Inserció
Laboral
ˇ Universitat de Barcelona, Department of research
and diagnosis methodologies in education.
ˇ IRFA sud, (France)
ˇ CRAS, Centro Riserche Affai Sociali (Italy)
ˇ DIE, Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung (Germany)
ˇ ˇ VUSTE ENVIS spol. s. r.o. (Czech Republic)Phases
of the project 1) Starting the project
2) Definition of the theoretical and methodological
framework
3) Fieldwork
4) Design and production of the interactive tool of
self-evaluation of competences (CD-ROM)
5) Pilot experience
6) Design of a guide of strategies to identify, develop
and transfer transversal competences
7) Dissemination of the results and final evaluation
of the project Final results
ˇ Report
on the list of transversal competences for the employability
of women with low qualification with the definitions
and contents of each competences.
ˇ Interactive
CD-ROM for the self-evaluation of transversal competences
from gender and intercultural points of view.
ˇ Guide of strategies to identify, develop and
transfer transversal competences of women with low
qualification in processes of orientation and learning.
ˇ Report on the results of the pilot experience
to prove the self-evaluation tool of competences.
ˇ Website to disseminate the results of
the project. |
