EPALE Community Conference 2021 - EPALE Talk – Inclusive and creative strategies to break down barriers in adult learning
Adult learning can happen in different contexts, using various methodologies, with diverse groups, with different objectives. In any case, ensuring access is a key element to allowing truly inclusive learning experiences.
In this panel you will travel through different environments, discovering inspiring practices and ideas emerging from the EPALE Community for overcoming obstacles and implementing social inclusion through learning.
Silvie Moors studied Dutch and English at the University of Antwerp. For 10 years, she worked as a project officer at the Nationaal Centrum voor Jeugdliteratuur and at Stichting Lezen (Iedereen leest). In 2007, she founded her own literary organisation, DE DAGEN, which focused on the promotion of reading and on vulnerable groups. She specialised in Shared Reading: together with about 50 volunteers, she read literature from across the world in hospitals, psychiatric institutions, community centers, and schools.
Jakub Walczyk is an educator, coordinator and curator of inclusive projects. At the ZAMEK Culture Centre in Poznań he runs the project “Sensitive Images”, a programme presenting social, critical and activist cinema. It consists of a series of popularisation events (lectures/debates/workshops) focusing on human rights. All events are organised with respect for the needs of people with sensory disabilities. He also collaborates with the University of the Arts Poznan as a lecturer.
Miquel Alandete is a language teacher. He has worked as a teacher trainer, multilingual consultant, educational advisor, cultural promoter, translator and interpreter. He has been working at the Picassent – Valencia EPA Presentación Sáez adult prison school since 2016.
Sibilla Drews is a teacher by profession and has been working for European Education Programmes since 2001. The adult education team she is heading in the German National Agency includes Erasmus+, the EPALE NSS and the Coordinator for the European Agenda for Adult Learning.
