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Significance of Non-formal and Informal
Education within the Training of Vocational Teachers in Lao PDR
Heribert [email protected]
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Thank you for the invitation
Curriculum revision is important
Sharing for learning
Good to have a wider look
I am still new in Lao PDR
Long time with dvv international in headquarters and projects
Research + teaching: Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Hungary
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Regional Director, dvv international
Office for South- and South East Asia
Lao German Development Cooperation
Teaching at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, Master of Education
Member, EFA EDN Group, Goal 3 + 4
Member, EFA Reference Group on Higher Education
Vice-President, International Council for Adult Education
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Non-formal and informal education
literacy learning and vocational skills training
livelihood, work and employment
What to learn from the current debate for curriculum development?
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International debate on skills looks at different areas in development
Poverty reductionReaching the marginalized
Small and medium enterprisesFarming and non-farming sector
Employment and EmployabilitySelf-employment and income
generation
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Education for All = EFA
2000 : World Education Forum
Goals 3: “ensuring that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life-skills programs
Goal 4
Global Monitoring Report 2012 : Skills development
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New Non-formal Education Policy 2010 for Lao PDR
Contribution to National Growth and Poverty Eradication Strategy NGPES
“… providing literacy, and continuing education and vocational skills training and lifelong learning opportunities”.
“… learning and skills needs to develop self-reliant productive and empowered citizens through engaging in income generating and life skills related activities.”
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UNESCO Regional Office Bangkok
End-of-Decade-Note on Learning and Life skills of Young People
For each country and region
Possible indicators- Countries with clear policies- Participation of youth in NFE- Youth literacy rate 15-24- Guidelines on life skills and TVET- Relevant programs and projects
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Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education (ASPBAE) www.aspbae.org
Study: The Status of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Life Skills for Youth in the Asia-Pacific Region
Forum, April, Melbourne: Re-thinking VET and Life Skills for Global Citizenship
Feed into EFA GMR on Skills
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Developments in Lao PDR
BAFIS = Vocational Training for the Informal Sector (from … to)
IVET = Integrated Vocational Education and Training (since 2010)
Policy for inclusive education: Reaching the marginalized
Vocational teacher training prepares for formal and non-formal approaches
Background paper EFA GMR on Skills?
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National Human Development ReportEmployment and LivelihoodsLao PDR, 2009
National, Province, District, Village
How to reach those who have a diversity of training needs
Training and service centersMobile training facilitiesTravelling trainers
NHDR, p 184
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“Informal training programmes , lasting a few weeks to a few months, need to be targeted a low-income rural and urban youth …
The courses should be short, practical, inexpensive, accessible, flexible, and spread regionally…
Training could be in schools, by instructors who could make visits to target sites, or though mobile training devices…
The timings of these courses should be flexible…
NHDR, 2009, p 186
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“Such training would assist in strengthening both self-employment and wage employment outside family farms, in rural and urban areas alike.
Private sector partnership should also be sought in these training programmes.
The target should be to train about 10.000 to 12.000 persons per year.”
NHDR, 2009, p 186
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We have many names for education, learning and training which is not in school or university
- non-formal education- out-of-school education- adult and post literacy- youth skills training- continuing education
and several others – a very rich and divserse field
And then there is lifelong learning
- l‘education permanente- recurrent education- lifelong education- learning throughout life (Delors, 1995)- lifewide, lifedeep ...
- creating lifelong learning systems (Shanghai, 2010)
A new virtual platform:
www.lifelongadultlearning.org
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There is no doubt
- early childhood education- primary schooling
are very important for lifelong learning
But at the same time
- youth and skills training- adult education and learning- non-formal and informal education
are not less important for the individual and society
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Improvements are not easy !
Let us get a clear understanding on what is needed and wanted
Let us join hands with partners in our own and other countries
Let us cooperate more on a regional level – following better comparative researches
Let us cooperate more on a European and Asian information and exchange level
Thank you !
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