1. “From Visibility to Action”: Tutoring Basic Skills in Multicultural Work

How to tutor a process of learning and change – Guidebook for teachers and workers with asylum seekers

Themes

a. Tutoring learning to learn, motivation and personal skills

b. Tutoring skills for employment and participation

c. Tutoring skills for Information Society; basic skills for communication, public services, searching and processing information

2. “From Visibility to Action”: Basic Skills for Asylum Seekers

A Collection of learning materials for individuals and small groups

Themes

a. Learning to learn, motivation and personal skills, empolyment and cooperation/participation skills

b. Communication skills, using public services, searching and processing information

Objectives of the workshops and materials production

1. Materials and workshops for workers and tutors

To collect a compact guidebook on tutoring the process of learning/improving basic skills in multicultural adult and youth groups where levels of skills are heterogeneous and/or low
To offer basic knowledge on the process of learning as a factor of change, motivation and empowerment.
To enhance tutoring of basic skills in contexts where asylum seekers can be reached also outside actual learning courses
To support the practice of understanding the skills for informational society as a motivating and empowering process based on visual and active interaction

2. Materials and short courses/other activities for asylum seekers

To improve the motivation of seeking opportunities for active life and/or employment by improving the basic skills
To improve the opportunities of asylum seekers to become included in the development of information society and its services
To offer a collection of motivating learning processes to be used in both courses and other activities to improve the basic skills
To offer a collection of gender specific practises for improving basic skills

Approaches:

cross-sectional, multiprofessional tutoring of basic skills in various contexts outside courses
enhancing motivation and empowerment of both asylum seekers and workers who work with them
point of departure in supporting the excisting basic skills and building on them
in informational skills; communication and cooperation plus critical thinking skills
using the motivation power of ICT with groups of asylum seekers
active methods (use of applied arts and group work methods)
social pedagogics and sociocultural animation