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02 SES 13 C, Overcoming Vulnerability and Enhancing Social Cohesion Through Inclusion, Communication and Active Citizenship in the Context of Adult Education and VET
Symposium
Contribution
Adult education seems to be a second chance for those who have not benefited from the formal education. In the recent years the new comers, refugees or migrants are among those in need of adult education to integrate into the society they moved in. However their multiple vulnerabilities such as language, cultural, social and economic difficulties and traumas they faced make their access and participation to adult education more challenging both for themselves and also for the education planners and providers. Therefore a new approach in adult education is needed to touch their actual needs for their active involvement into society. This paper will examine two education initiatives prepared specifically for the Syrian refugees in Turkey, based on field work of a research conducted in the context of the Horizon 2020 project entitled “Adult Education as a Means of Active Participatory Citizenship (EduMAP)”. Turkey, with more than four million refugees, is hosting the highest numbers of refugees in the world. Therefore Turkish team focused on good practice examples where AE programmes target Syrian refugees. First GP is an NGO which was established by a municipality in the peripheries of Istanbul; the second one is the branch of an NGO working on national scale for vulnerable groups, now serving mainly for the refugees. Both GPs have integrated approach towards refugees from providing the very basic immediate needs to language, vocational courses and legal or psychological counselling. Both the numbers and also the emergency of the situation triggered new approaches in terms of structure, legislation or mind-set, to respond to the challenges this refugee flow created. The study analyses the new steps taken in adult education of Syrian refugees in Turkey and also attempt to list certain areas for improvement and provide policy recommendations at various levels.
References
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