Experiential Pedagogy Of The Oppressed For Adults Erasmus Project

Project Title

Experiential Pedagogy Of The Oppressed For Adults

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Integration of refugees; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The project named Experiential Pedagogy Of The Oppressed For Adults, run between 31/12/2017 and 30/12/2019 within the partnership of NGO’s from five countries (Turkey, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria and N. Macedonia) aimed to develop the capacities of the partner organizations and their adult educators, to improve the quality of learning programmes, tools, and methodologies by transnational cooperation and using innovative and persisting perfection in adult learning opportunities. Applying innovative and qualified ways to develop and improve their teaching skills helped the NGO workers and social workers to cope with difficulties in refugees’ educational issues better.

Project started by running a transnational research to see the current situation of adult education in refugee context in Turkey, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria and N. Macedonia. The research has been gathered in a report which was one of the intellectual outputs of the project.
According to the findings of the research, a tailored, unique education program was developed for adult educators and implemented through two LLT activities which provided the adult educators a long-term training for trainers experience.

During the first LLT activity in Turkey up-to-date works of David Kolb on experiential learning theory and on practical synthesis of Experiential Learning Theory and Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed were delivered to the adult educators.
Then these educators run training programs in their locals and practices experiential learning and pedagogy of the oppressed methodology.

The second LLT program in North Macedonia aimed to extract new learning outputs from the local implementations of the adult educators by evaluating their practices, opening a peer learning space for enhancing the new learning and sharing the up-to-date developments of experiential learning theory.

All the content developed, delivered and re-produced during the project was gathered in a Trainers’ Guide which was the second intellectual output of the project.

Lastly all these outputs and outcomes were shared with stakeholders in the field of civil society, adult education and humanitarian works in all five countries via national multiplying events.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 151470 Eur

Project Coordinator

Gaziantep Egitim ve Genclik Dernegi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• ASSOCIATION OF CITIZENS CEFE MACEDONIA SKOPJE
• SYLLOGOS EKPAIDEFSIS KAI ANAPTIXIS ATOMON ME IDIKES ANGKES
• Balkanska Agenciya za Ustoychivo Razvitie
• EURO-NET