Joint Meeting on Lifelong Learning: Changing Roles of Educational Personnel

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Joint Meeting on Lifelong Learning in the Twenty-First Century:
The Changing Roles of Educational Personnel

(Geneva, 10-14 April 2000)

Points for discussion

Arising from the information presented in this report, the points set out below are proposed by the International Labour Office as a basis for the Meeting’s discussion, it being understood as part of the general characteristics of ILO sectoral meetings that the Meeting is free to organize its work as it sees fit.

Lifelong learning: Policy, organization, financing and employment

1. Organisation, financing and employment policies to progressively install lifelong learning opportunities for all, with special attention to:

a) universal participation and gender balance
b) integration of schools, higher education institutions, workplace learning sites, adult and non-formal education in educational provision
c) new financing arrangements for lifelong learning, including learning accounts

2. Partnerships for education - policy formulation, governance and resource use

Roles and responsibilities of educational personnel

3. Roles and responsibilities of all categories of educational personnel in lifelong learning, with special attention to:

a) school leadership
b) teachers’ roles and professionalization
c) roles of workplace learning facilitators - trainers, managers and union officials
d) integration of information technology

4. Initial education and continual training for educational roles and responsibilities

5. Professional and career development, including use of appraisal

Remuneration and work in education

6. Salary levels and compensation structure, including individual or collective performance criteria

7. Organisation of the teaching and learning environment, with attention to:

a) hours, class size and flexible time tabling
b) infrastructure, health and safety

Participation in educational decision-making and workplace learning

8. School-based management and participatory decision-making

9. The role of consultation mechanisms and collective bargaining, with attention to:

a) cooperative bargaining
b) resolution of disputes

10. Roles of employers and workers in the promotion of workplace learning, and the organization and structuring of lifelong learning

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11. Proposals for ILO action

Updated by BR. Approved by OdVR. Last update: 28 September 2000.

Joint Meeting on Lifelong Learning in the Twenty-First Century: The Changing Roles of Educational Personnel

Lifelong learning: Policy, organization, financing and employment

Roles and responsibilities of educational personnel

Remuneration and work in education

Participation in educational decision-making and workplace learning

ILO

Joint Meeting on Lifelong Learning in the Twenty-First Century:
The Changing Roles of Educational Personnel