6 ECTS credits
180 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1021475ANR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.
The programme component aims to provide students with an understanding of the policy and practice of the Adult Educational sectors. Adult Educational practice can be divided into 4 following sectors: Social, Cultural, Educational and Leisure sector. The professional profile of an adult educational professional (agoog) is not unequivocal, but is situated in a wide variety of professional contexts. This programme component provides students with an introduction to and in-depth understanding of these different practices, organisational structures and policy frameworks. It also aims to give students the opportunity to gain limited practical experience in order to broaden and increase their interest and involvement in the various sectors of adult education and the social contexts in which they find themselves. In order to introduce students to these sectors, the following actions are taken:
- Lectures & study materials in the form of a reader
- Guest lectures by speakers from these sectors
- A group task in cooperation with an organisation active in 1 of these sectors. This is an integrated group task involving collaboration with other courses from 1st bachelor.
PowerPoint slides and accompanying texts in the form of a reader are made available on electronic learning platform Canvas.
More information on lesson content and teaching materials will follow during the first lesson.
- General competencies: training-specific learning outcomes.
- Course-specific learning outcomes:
The student:
- Has insight into practices of different adult educational sectors and can explain them
- Can place the different sectors within existing policy frameworks
- Can explain the different professional roles of an adult educationalist ‘agoog’
- Can reflect critically on the practice and policy of various sectors on the basis of well-founded arguments
- Can work together in teams on a socially relevant group assignment in a social context on the basis of professionalism and teamwork
- Can search for, select and process theoretical and empirical sources in function of a relevant problem definition within adult educational sciences.
- Can make connections between different theoretical concepts and the field of practice of Adult Education.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 70% of the final mark.
PRAC Practical Assignment determines 30% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the PRAC Practical Assignment category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- The student's overall score for the practical assignment is not necessarily the same for all group members. The individual grade is subject to correction by peer evaluation where an individual contribution is evaluated.
- Students should achieve at least 10/20 on each category to pass this course. If the student has a failing grade in any of the two categories the student will be awarded a 9/20 or the lowest sub-point as the final grade.
- Any category on which at least a 10/20 was not obtained must be retaken in second examination period. If the student achieved a pass for one of the categories in the first exam period this point is transferred to the second exam period. In the second exam period, the practical assignment is replaced by an alternative assignment.
- If the student is absent for one of the two parts, the student will be awarded an "Absent" as the overall mark for the Programme component.
- The partial results of the individual assignments are not transferable to a subsequent academic year.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Adult Education: Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Profile Cultural Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Abridged Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Initial track (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Abridged Profile Cultural Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Philosophy and Moral Sciences: default (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Science in Adult Education: Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Science in Adult Education: Profile Cultural Studies (only offered in Dutch)