acefir

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?acefir

• Catalan
• association
• for education,
• training
• and research

is an association of social initiative that
brings together a team of professionals from
different fields with the common interest of
working for education, training and research
related to youth, adults and older people.
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ACEFIR is member of the European Association for
the Education of Adults (EAEA). EAEA is an
organisation with more than 114 partners from the
regional national fields of 41 European
countries. Is member of assessment of the UNESCO
and European Commission. It collaborates with
other organisations from the European and
International field as EARLALL and ICAE.
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?acefir SENIOR CITIZENS AND EDUCATION
The work in ACEFIR for Education and Senior
Citizens has been always in the aims of the
organization. The coordination of the project
Older adults as helpers in a learning process
together with the worries for the education of
young people and adults, were the issues which
made start our association.
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SENIOR CITIZENS ECUACATION IN CATALONIARESULTS

• We have noticed that in a few years we have done
  a very big step, because actually we are in a
  similar level than other countries that have a
  very old democracy.
• The great number of programmes about senior
  citizens developed by organisations as well as
  for the Autonomic and Local Institutions, makes
  us to reaffirm the big effort that our country is
  doing in this field.

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PARTICIPATION IN PEFETE NETWORKRESULTS

• Thanks to the participation in the PEFETE network
  has been created the Catalan sub-network
• EduGran, Senior Citizens and Education
• composed by
• ACEFIR, Catalan Association for Education,
  Training and Research, Girona.
• DEMÀ Association, Department of Studies of
  Current Means, Barcelona.
• Faculty of Psychology, Education and Sport
  Science Blanquerna, Universitat Ramon Llull,
  Barcelona.
• Faculty of Psychology from the University of
  Barcelona.
• Lecture Rooms of Senior Citizens of the
  University of Girona.

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PARTICIPATION IN PEFETE NETWORK INITIAL
OBJECTIVES OF EDUGRAN
The main issue of this research is to
demonstrate How the participation in learning
activities, is improving the quality of life for
senior citizens?

• Objectives
• To pick up information about good practices of
  senior citizens education in our country and in
  the rest of Europe.
• 2. To value the participation of the senior
  citizens in learning activities at a formal, non
  formal and informal level.
• 3. To value the participation of the senior
  citizens in learning activities in the rural as
  urban areas.
• 4. To analyze how they are satisfied in their
  involvement in learning activities, and how it
  influence in their quality of life.
• 5. To propose criteria when designing learning
  activities.

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AFTER 1st YEAR WORKING EduGran older adults
and education

• When we started the research, we noticed that
  there was a lack of centralized information about
  the learning activities provided for older
  adults. It made necessary to establish a new aim
  for the work field
• Its necessary to know the wide range of
  activities provided, before knowing how they
  value these activities.

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AFTER 1st YEAR WORKING METHODOLOGY OF THE
RESEARCH

• Questionnaire

Personal interview
Content basic data centers, profile of the
centre, profile of the participants, profile of
the activities, list of activities for 2005
Demonstration and Distribution Girona
county Its a demographic representative
geographical area, and it will allow to attain
conclusions for all Catalan population.
Database
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AFTER 1st YEAR WORKING Work hypothesis

• H1- Starting with educational-leisure offer,
  senior citizens can choose for leisure activities
  more than learning activities.
• H2- The offer of learning activities is less in
  the rural areas than in the cities.
• H3- Senior citizens use to participate in those
  activities that are closed proposed by
  organizations or institutions who also organize
  them.
• H4- There is a lack of a reference information
  about institutions and organizations which
  provide learning activities, and also a good
  joint classification system for all of them.
• H5- Looking at the diversification and lack of
  unity in the services, we ask for a lack of
  training for trainers.

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AFTER 1st YEAR WORKING FIRST RESULTS
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AFTER 1st YEAR WORKING FIRST RESULTS

• Typology of activities

Basic skills Communicative skills (languages
and ICT) Job training Active citizenships
(integration, autonomy, participation) Art and
Culture (cultural and artistic creation, and
consume cultural goods)
List of the most realized activities
History workshop Reading and lecture
groups Literacy University lecture room Catalan
courses Basic ICT Foreign language Gymnastics
and physical training Memory workshop Initiatives
of collaboration with the rest of citizens Art
workshops painting, crafts and theatre Cultural
visits to the territory Table games (mainly
napes) Coffee discussions
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AFTER 1st YEAR WORKING FIRST RESULTS

• It is needed a bigger politic effort in education
  and senior citizens in order to attain a good
  manage of the resources. There are many
  activities, but not enough planned.
• In the rural areas, where the most important
  thing is the social relationships, there is a
  contradiction between motility and planning of
  activities.

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PEFETE - EduGranFuture proposals

• Its good to remark that the sub-network EduGran
  has been awarded by a financial organization
  (Caixa Sabadell), within their Senior Citizens
  Awards.
• After this first year, we must think in the
  future
• What is the next step?
• Our proposal is to present the work of PEFETE
  network and the results of EduGran research in
  the different Forums about Senior Citizens and
  about Adult Education, to think and discuss with
  the policy makers, in order they keep it in mind
  when taking decisions.
• PEFETE network can help in a big measure that
  this kind of actions attain the results we hope.