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"ETTAD - Enabling teachers and trainers to improve the accessibility of adult education"Financed: European Union, Life Long Learning Programme 2007-2013, Grundtvig - Multilateral Projects Code: 134653-2007-UK-GRUNDTVIG-GMP Duration: 01.12.2007 - 30.11.2009 Coordinator: University of Worcester, UK Summary ETTAD will enable teachers and trainers to help the integration of disabled people into adult education by removing unintended barriers to their entry and successful participation. Such improvements will open to disabled people a wider range of opportunities learning and personal development and so be a major step to reduce discrimination against them. Full accessibility for disabled people to adult education requires adjustments in teaching, learning and assessment: teachers and trainers are best positioned to do this, although they normally lack experience and expertise to do so. ETTAD will transfer to adult education, through a process of thorough review and adaptation a resource with a very successful track-record in tertiary education. Two new countries will participate (Romania and Turkey) and new websites will be set up in all 5 countries specifically to address the needs of users in VET. This will be an important resource to be drawn on in initial and continuing teacher training. It will be complemented by a toolkit with in instrument for identifying staff needs and materials to help all staff in meeting these needs. The partnership includes a strong range of experience and user groups and is well-integrated into stakeholder networks at national and European levels. The impact of the project will raise awareness of, and enable staff to respond to, increased participation in mainstream adult education by disabled people – which has been shown to be a powerful combination in stimulating change in tertiary education. Objectives 1. Quality in Lifelong Learning is only achieved if it is quality for all: the opportunities that that mainstream adult education offers should, as far as possible, be open to all. Too often disabled people are unable to participate because of avoidable (often unintentional) barriers in the way learning and teaching is organised and delivered. ETTAD will help staff to remove these barriers and so make an important contribution to the achievement of real quality. 2. As noted elsewhere in this application, disabled people have generally low participation rates in education of all kinds: measures to improve provision for them will improve rates. This is particularly important for older people, given that disability rates increase with age. Also it is clear (e.g. in UK universities, where considerable action has taken place) the measures to improve provision for disabled people often benefit other disadvantaged groups. 3. The fullest range of Lifelong Learning opportunities will only be open to disabled people through access to mainstream provision. ETTAD will make an important contribution to this objective by providing teachers and trainers with a readily usable, online, resource to improve the accessibility to their courses for disabled people. 4. ETTAD develops from innovative products developed and tested in previous projects within Community programmes and in the UK: this creates a solid basis for the exchange of good practice to meet the challenge of providing full opportunities for disabled people, a challenge that is shared across Europe and of which teachers and trainers are increasingly aware. 5. Disabled people are among the groups most vulnerable to disadvantages in the job market and in education and training. If teachers are enabled to make reasonable adjustments to their courses this can radically improve the opportunities for disabled people to participate. Separate facilities are not the preferred choice of disabled people (or of the many older people with acquired disabilities) – ETTAD will help create alternative opportunities within mainstream provision. 6. The online resource from which this project develops provides teachers and trainers with information and advice based on innovative practices from across Europe and beyond. The stimulus for its creation comes from the UK, where a great deal of work has been done, particularly in tertiary education. ETTAD will develop the existing resource to meet the needs of users in adult education in existing partner countries as well as in Romania, a country not previously included, thereby sharing innovative practice between countries and with new users. 7. The online resource that ETTAD will develop provides a direct support for pedagogical improvement, enabling teachers to be more effective in enabling students to learn. In ETTAD it will be supplemented by a needs-analysis tool that will help both individual staff and management within adult education to identify and evaluate their needs with respect of the needs of current and potential disabled students. Partners: Universitatea din Worcester, UK (coordinator organization) Asociatia Marie Curie, Bulgaria University of Ioannina, Grecia Asociatia "Fundatia H", Romania Institutul de Management Kavrakogoglu, Turcia more details: www.ettad.eu "This project has been funded with the support of European Commission in the framework of the Grundtvig program. The content of this website reflects only the partnership view and the Commision cannot hold responsability for any use of the information contained therein."
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