Program duration: 01/10/2006 - 01/10/2008
Alpha-Beta – New Methods for Services towards Illiterates in Adult Education
European Commission: DG Education and Culture, Socrates- Minerva
Taking into consideration the increasing number of illiterates in the European Union during the last years, the projects aimed at developing innovative educational methods for adult illiterates. Adjusted to their learning needs and not necessarily to their knowledge of writing and reading, the project focused on the development of alternative educational methods.
In many EU countries, such as Romania where 9-11% of the population is characterized illiterate and in Greece where the same percentage reaches 5%, people with illiteracy, and especially elderly, are not interested in learning to write and read and therefore they live cut off from the world.
As part of its objectives, Alpha-Beta aimed to help instructors to develop and implement new teaching methods based on communication which does not require knowledge of writing and reading. Accomplishing this goal, the project helps illiterates not only to acquire knowledge and qualifications but also to reinforce their self esteem and participate in a better way in political, social and economic processes.
Some of the modules that were taught as part of the project were relevant to smoking cessation, health living, number and word learning, sexual education, emergencies, family and school, cooking, shopping and substance misuse.
Services: Education
Project partners
International Education Information Exchange e.V. – IEIE Country: Germany
Verein Multikulturell e.V. Country: Austria
Institute of Preventive Medicine, Environmental and Occupational Health, PROLEPSIS Country: Greece
Exchange House Travellers Service Country: Ireland
DELTA 2000 Country: Italy
Asociata Nationala a Universitatilor Populare – ANUP Country: Romania
Relative links
http://alpha-eu.de/default.htm