ADULT EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN CONTINUOUS EDUCATION IN THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC: TRAINING AND UPBRINGING

• Тетяна Кристопчук

  Рівненський державний гуманітарний університет

The article analyzes the initial conceptual issues for the development of adult education, reflected in the legal framework of the Italian Republic. Adult education is characterized as a set of educational processes of formal, non-formal education and informal learning. The main content’s components of adult education in the context of modern continuing education are identified: basic learning skills development; vocational training and development; general cultural self-improvement, forming skills of active civil position. Forms of realization of adult education are determined: special, for which a special time and place is allocated (seminars, organizational and active games); situational, implemented in the course of innovative activities of a specialist through the processes of reflection; relevant when the educational result of any activity becomes a new means of their own activity. Peculiarities of non-formal adult education programs are analyzed. It is noted that adult education is organized in Permanent Territorial Centers (PTC) and evening courses conducted by higher education institutions. It is emphasized that the development of adult education is facilitated by the Regional Centers of Adult Education (RCAE) and the Regional Centers of Research, Experiments and Development (RCRE & D). The structure of Regional Centers for Adult Education (RCAE) is determined: administrative unit; didactic unit; training unit. It is established that the National System of Regional Qualifications determines the mechanism of mutual recognition of interregional qualifications; certifies and conducts standard system procedures for the identification and verification of non-formal education and information learning services. It is emphasized that adult education covers the education of persons in places of imprisonment and preventive institutions. The organization of the educational process in such institutions is seen as a comprehensive assistance to prisoners and dismissed persons in determining their personal life plan and forming their own responsibility, facilitating their reintegration into society and restoring their social status as a full member of society. It is highlighted that training in adult education centers contributes to the acquisition of competencies by increasing access to the labor market.

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