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VaLEx - Valuing Learning from Experience

Summary of the Project

Valuing Learning from Experience, or VaLEx, building on the previous Grungtvig project's findings, seeks to take forward the EC's priority for valuing learning and stimulate demand for learning from hard-to-reach groups, through the development of a APEL pedagogical model common to the European partners, designed to facilitate institutional recognition of informal and non-formal learning. The project's objectives are to:

	carry out a theoretical analysis of existing practices and the learning and teaching principles underpinning APEL implementation in the partner countries
	develop a pedagogical model based on an APEL transformative process: a reflective learning approach enabling uncertain adult learners to articulate learning and core skills acquired through experience, be it at work or elsewhere, through an adult guidance approach
	target learners likely to suffer from social exclusion: people with disabilities, people with no formal qualifications, the unemployed, and refugees/ asylum seekers, using local partners (educational/ NGO organisations) as 'consultants' to access the learner groups
	pilot and evaluate learning tools (the 'APEL toolkit') emerging from the pedagogical model.

The outputs will include a sound pedagogical model transferable across diverse European realities, an 'APEL toolkit', comprising of electronic and paper-based learning tools, and professional guidelines for teaching, advising and support staff.

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