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Project code: 5-07-137

MODELS OF ADULT EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL AND PROFESSIONAL CHANGES

Main researcher: PONGRAC, SILVIJE (38105)

Assistants

TABAKOVIĆ, ĐURO (48832)
VUJIĆ, VIDOJE (6100)
POLIĆ, VLADIMIRA (37920)
MIHIĆ-ČEPIĆ, RENATA (900457)

Type of research: applied
Duration from: 01/01/91. to 12/31/94.

Papers on project (total): 21

Institution name: Pedagoški fakultet, Rijeka (9)
Department/Institute: Institut of Pedagogy
Address: Omladinska 14
City: 51000 - Rijeka, Croatia

Communication: Phone: 385 (0)51 516 322; Phone: 385 (0)51 516 533; Phone: 385 (0)51 516 369; Phone: 385 (0)51 516 395; Fax: 385 (0)51 515 142; E-mail: r.cepic@mapef.pefri.hr

Summary: The project "Models of adult educaton in the context of sociala and professional changes" deals with the study of the present situation and further possibilities for advancing the model of non-formal vocational education. The researchers gather, classify and analyse all the information available concerning educational systems in the world and in Croatia relevant for the processes of non-formal adult education. The most important professional changes are also followed by comparative studies. Models preparing for entrance into a particular chosen vocation, models of personnel education (especially managers) and models and forms of re-training in Croatia and other countries are investigated and analysed from the educational point of view. Models corresponding to the changes in our economic and social development will be offered according to the data obtained and the evalution of real possibilities. The research is interdisciplinary. It is directed only to those urgent problems of professional changes which is possible, under given conditions, to study more intensively. The study of the possibilities for re-training disabled war veterans was introduced into the project on account of the importance of the problem and its connection with the subject matter investigated.

Keywords: functional education, handicapped, personnel selection, human resources, management, models of promotion at work, multi-medial education, non-formal education, forms of education, adult education, literacy communication, beginning of work, vocational rehabilitation, personnel promotion, working time, educational system, vocational training, courses, introduction to employment, communication skills

Research goals: An important progress has been made in the field of adult education, i.e. in adult education theory and practice in the world, while there is a considerable lag in our country in this field. Research, especially in non-formal vocational adult education, has been neglected. The object of the research is to define the present situation and the possibilities for further development of non-formal vocational adult education. The object includes the following tasks: 1. to establish the changes in occupations and in non-formal vocational adult education in the world and in our country in the wider context of the educational system; 2. to study models for entrance into a particular vocation (acceptance, internship); 3. to investigate models of non-formal education of managers (processes, forms, contents, methods); 4. to identify models and forms of re-training (from readaptation to rehabilitation of disabled war veterans and work handicapped). Beginning with theoretical studies, empirical investigations and date interpretation, possible improvements, which are evaluated by pilot investigations, are projected . The results which could be directly used in practice are expected. Theoretic contribution are also expected. There is a possibility of a more complete insight because the research has been conducted interdisciplinary, i.e. from adult education and communication aspect, adult education and didactic aspect, personnel aspect, psyhological aspect, and economic and educational aspect.

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