Potential of Peer Guidance to Empower Migrants for Employment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21866955 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Satu Heimo (0000-0003-4174-1318, Tampere University), Katriina Tapanila (0000-0002-1361-5413, Tampere University), Anna Ojapelto (0000-0002-8467-5149, Tampere University), Anja Heikkinen (0000-0002-7208-0797, Tampere University) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 335-348 |
| Publication date | 2020-08-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2000-7426 • E-ISSN: 2000-7426 |
| Publisher | Linköping University Electronic Press (PUBLISHER • SE) |
| DOI | 10.3384/rela.2000-7426.ojs1685 |
| OpenAlex | W3080549872 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
Peerness is a common approach to learning, especially in Nordic adult education, but is increasingly adopted by European Union (EU)-funded projects that aim to improve migrants’ employability. This article discusses action research that evaluated an ESF-funded project, run by a Finnish popular adult education association in collaboration with vocational adult education institutes, NGOs, and a trade union. The project trained migrants to become peer group guides and empower migrant-background participants for employment. The training prepared guides to become experiential experts, but increased the distance between the participants and themselves. The guidance could even strengthen the otherness of participants when the peerness was based solely on sharing a migrant background. Voluntary peer guidance may reinforce this separation, but dependence on ESF funding also shapes mainstream adult education; therefore, the empowerment of migrants should build on collaboration between experiential experts and guidance professionals as part of the regular adult education system
Adult education · Business · Employability · Empowerment · European union · Experiential learning · Lifelong learning · Mainstream · Medical education · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Vocational education · Adult and Continuing Education Topics · Innovative Education and Learning Practices · Medicine · Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice
The Politics of Education
Immigrant Volunteering
The citizen is stepping into a new role”—Policy interpretations of patient and public involvement in Finland
By Helping Others, We Helped Ourselves
Is My Volunteer Job Not Real Work?’ The Experiences of Migrant Women with Finding Employment Through Volunteer Work
Adult Education between Cultural Assimilation and Structural Integration. Settlement programmes for 'newcomers' in The Netherlands
Psychological empowerment
What's in a Name
Migrants and the language of instruction
Adult education and the fostering of asylum seekers as "full" citizens
The making of 'professional amateurs
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |