Saturday, 26 November 2011
Leyendo a William Ospina: Propuesta para una verdadera educacion
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Thursday, 1 September 2011
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
RECRUITING TUTORS FOR AEM NEXT ACADEMICTERM
VOLUNTEER TUTORS NEEDED
United Migrant Workers Education Project (UMWEP) is looking for volunteer tutors to deliver its Alternative Education Model (AEM). We welcome experienced ESOL and ICT Tutors/Assistant Tutors, but also those with an interest in non-formal adult education. You don’t need a teaching qualification to join our project, but we require you have a good standard of the subject you want to teach.
The program is open to all volunteers whether you are at university, someone wanting to gain some teaching experience in an informal setting or someone who simply wants to contribute part of her/his spare time supporting migrant workers. If you are willing to share your knowledge and skills with migrant and vulnerable workers, this is a great opportunity to do so.
We concentrate on ESOL and ICT but also organise courses on Art, workshops on health rights and grassroots activities on labour rights. If you have new ideas and proposals we will be happy to hear about them.
The Alternative Education Model is made of volunteers from different backgrounds as we welcome diversity and equal opportunities. Our tutors are committed to the AEM because of their social awareness and sense of solidarity with those who have been excluded from mainstream education.
If you believe in social justice and you think that another world is possible by contributing a few hours a week to adult education, then you will fit into our education and pedagogical philosophy. This volunteer position will give you the opportunity to enhance the learning experience and the future prospects of disadvantaged adults in London
Here is what some of our Tutors have said:
“The learners are really nice and friendly and they make you feel very welcomed. They are very interested in learning, that’s why they spend their day off at the Alternative Education Model project, even though many of them work long hours doing tiring manual jobs”.
“I have lots of fun during the class and I can see that the learners really appreciate my work”.
“I am very interested in alternative types of education and the AEM is a great project to experience and to experiment”.
Our project is based in Holborn, central London
If you are willing to take up the challenge and to commit a minimum of 2 hours per week during 15 weeks to the Alternative Education Model, please contact Carlos Cruz:
Tel. 020 7611 2517
Mob. 077 8725 4223
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Alternative Education: a model to develop
EDITORIAL
By Carlos Cruz
Welcome to the Alternative Education Model blog. I do hope that this tribune can help with the debate and analysis of contemporary education. The goal of these pages is to contribute to the discussion of the current situation of adult learners in London and the UK and the possible alternatives we have to confront the dramatic exclusion style policies implemented under the ComDem government coalition since they came to power in May 2010.
The name of this blog, 'Alternative Education Model' (AEM), is the name given to the pedagogical method we are following at our United Migrant Workers Education Project (UMWEP), based in Faraday House, Holborn, Central London and supported and sponsored by Unite the Union since 2007. Thanks to Unite and the Union Learning Fund (ULF), we have developed the AEM against all the adversities, unjustified and antidemocratic cuts for English for Speaker of Other Languages (ESOL) and other adult education programs around the country.
From summer last year when ESOL cuts started to take effect and our education project was one of the first victims left with no paid teachers and consequently, with no formal, accredited courses delivered to our members and community learners, we had not option but to create AEM, as a way to survive the social tsunami launched by the government against the more vulnerable and impoverished communities.
Based only on volunteer tutors and assistants from our own communities and knowing that there are a lot of skilled ant talented people, many professionals graduated in their own countries but forced to migrate by the lethal actions of neo-liberal economic models and condemned to increase the cheap labour force of the rich countries; we invited them to be part of the project. That is how we have arrived to our first anniversary as an independent education project, seeing learners learning and enjoying and making education a real tool to build up and improve our quality of live.
The conclusion so far is that AEM can and must continue as a real education alternative for the migrant and native workers, for all adult and vulnerable members of our communities who have been left outside of the formal, conventional mainstream of education. From now on we will be publishing more accurate and detailed information about UMWEP-AEM. My invitation to all readers is to contribute with your comments/articles/opinions to debate the legitimacy and viability of our project and, in general, concepts and interpretations of education as the backbone of society as I think it is.
By Carlos Cruz
Welcome to the Alternative Education Model blog. I do hope that this tribune can help with the debate and analysis of contemporary education. The goal of these pages is to contribute to the discussion of the current situation of adult learners in London and the UK and the possible alternatives we have to confront the dramatic exclusion style policies implemented under the ComDem government coalition since they came to power in May 2010.
The name of this blog, 'Alternative Education Model' (AEM), is the name given to the pedagogical method we are following at our United Migrant Workers Education Project (UMWEP), based in Faraday House, Holborn, Central London and supported and sponsored by Unite the Union since 2007. Thanks to Unite and the Union Learning Fund (ULF), we have developed the AEM against all the adversities, unjustified and antidemocratic cuts for English for Speaker of Other Languages (ESOL) and other adult education programs around the country.
From summer last year when ESOL cuts started to take effect and our education project was one of the first victims left with no paid teachers and consequently, with no formal, accredited courses delivered to our members and community learners, we had not option but to create AEM, as a way to survive the social tsunami launched by the government against the more vulnerable and impoverished communities.
Based only on volunteer tutors and assistants from our own communities and knowing that there are a lot of skilled ant talented people, many professionals graduated in their own countries but forced to migrate by the lethal actions of neo-liberal economic models and condemned to increase the cheap labour force of the rich countries; we invited them to be part of the project. That is how we have arrived to our first anniversary as an independent education project, seeing learners learning and enjoying and making education a real tool to build up and improve our quality of live.
The conclusion so far is that AEM can and must continue as a real education alternative for the migrant and native workers, for all adult and vulnerable members of our communities who have been left outside of the formal, conventional mainstream of education. From now on we will be publishing more accurate and detailed information about UMWEP-AEM. My invitation to all readers is to contribute with your comments/articles/opinions to debate the legitimacy and viability of our project and, in general, concepts and interpretations of education as the backbone of society as I think it is.
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