Enhancing participation through the learning continuum

1. Enhancing participation through the learning continuum Lynne Chisholm ICNYP International Conference Vienna 11-14 December 2006 Session: Youth participation, voluntary service and democratic citizenship Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften

2. A learning continuum What? Non-formal Informal Formal Where? Who? How? Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften

3. Formal learning is the addition – but most people like non-formal and informal learning more Formal Non-formal Informal Time Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften

4. ‘Lifewide’ learning – diverse contexts Informal settings are the most popular learning contexts • most of all at home, with friends and colleagues, at leisure • then on the job and in the workplace • less often in libraries, being abroad, or doing social/political activities Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften

5. Democratic participation in assuring the quality of learning • self-evaluation, voluntary reflection • youth NGOs, youth workers and trainers • public agencies, researchers, universities • official bodies, legal provisions 1 2 3 4 soft hard internal evaluation external regulation Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften

6. Voluntary work is professional work • voluntary youth and community work fosters what it is: active citizenship in practice • rewards are important but different – quality demands are important and similar • non-formal educators can also benefit from non-formal professional learning methods • peer-learning and intergenerational learning are complementary Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften

7. Vielen Dank! Univ.-Prof. Dr. Lynne Chisholm Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck Institute of Educational Sciences Liebeneggstrasse 8 A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria ezw-leitungssekretariat@uibk.ac.at Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften