STORY

 

	Grundtvig 2    2008-2010 Learning Partnership
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Summary

Biographically oriented adult education is based on the assumption that informally acquired competencies in human experiences and actions have the form of stories. The purpose is a pragmatic one: Let’s take our organisation, our country, the process of European unification and make a good story out of it!

The project “Narrated Biography – Story Management for Adult Education” intends to tackle the concrete experiences made by the people living in the EU countries – here, in a model-like fashion, by the staff and learners from the participating partners. Thus, the partners’ interventions, facilitated by training in strategy and business development, communication and learner counselling, will be interrelated and made more effective.

The communicative dialogue on the individual + the common work/view on
(hi)story will represent both the central topic + the workplace of the
learning partnership. The following different perspectives are considered to be worth to be discussed among the participating Partners:
A look at:

• the biography + the one’s own self
• the unknown + foreign from the foreign culture perspective
• the educational context of the learning partnership
• the unknown + foreign biography from one’s own perspective
• the other’s judgement on one’s own story
• the attitude + the validation towards story management in EU countries