Paul Downes enligthens PREVENT in Antwerp
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05 February 2015During the meeting in Antwerp (February 13-14), Paul Downes* introduced Structural indicators (SI's) in Prevent project. It deals with something that can be changed (laws, spaces, roles and responsibilities, key guiding principles, potentially malleable dimensions to a school and/or community system).
Structural indicators can operate flexibly at different levels of a system and at different levels of concreteness and abstraction i.e., physical spaces and designated jobs, guiding principles for action/strategy etc.)Can it be efficient and innovative in the way of involving parents to prevent early school leaving ? Is it a bit too much “conceptual” ? How can we imagine imagine to help partners to take these SI on board at the local level? These are the questions we asked him in this interview : http://youtu.be/YD3k9lpumss
*Paul Downes is thematic expert of PREVENT project. He is director of Educational Disadvantage Centre, senior lecturer in Education (Psychology), member of the European Commission Network of Experts on the Social Aspects of Education and Training (NESET) (2011-2014). He belongs to St. Patrick’s College-Dublin (Ireland)
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