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Midlothian Council Community Learning & Development works with individuals and groups to provide educational programmes relevant to people's needs and interests that will further their personal, social and economic effectiveness and enable them to acquire the skills, knowledge and understanding to enrich their lives.
To read the latest information on our Adult Learning activities please see here.
To read background information on Adult Learning please read on.
Aims of Adult Learning
Community Learning & Development aims to:
- Offer a professional service of the highest quality.
- Ensure that post-16 educational provision is easily accessible to adults who have few or no educational qualifications or because of their circumstances are marginalised or disadvantaged.
- Help people acquire skills of literacy, numeracy, oracy and access skills, with associated self-confidence in order that they can access resources and opportunities.
- Help people to access further study or employment through the provision of second chance opportunities that will enable them to make informed life and vocational choices.
- Provide alternative routes into areas of study difficult to access by particular categories of people.
- Provide learning opportunities in a wide range of subjects through which adults can enrich their lives and give them opportunities to contribute their knowledge and experience to the education of others.
- Promote critical awareness in order to enable individuals to acquire the confidence, skills and knowledge to take action to effect change in their life situation.
- Provide educational activities designed to address disadvantage and discrimination.
- Promote physical and mental health.
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Characteristics of Adult Learning
Community Learning & Development recognises certain important characteristics of Adult Learning:
- It is wide-ranging and diverse because people learn in many different contexts and for different purposes.
- It has its concentration in community-based settings and is non-formal.
- It acknowledges that people participate on a voluntary basis in educational programmes.
- It uses learning and teaching methodologies that value adult experiences.
- It starts where people are and engages them in defining what they want to learn.
- It is often the first link with most people returning to learning.
- It specifically targets people who have not accessed educational opportunities after leaving school and people coping with or initiating changes in their lives.
- It recognises the importance of lifelong learning.
- It promotes participative education which encourages community groups to create and shape educational programmes and then supports them in reviewing action.
- It believes that gains for participants are concerned with knowledge, skills and an increased self-esteem and confidence in personal, social, economic and political effectiveness.
For details of our courses please see Day & Evening Classes - Courses.
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Anne McConaghy
0131 271 3708
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