LML Grundtvig

THE GRUNDTVIG PROJECT

• She is an aspiring primary school teacher studying at the University of Malta. As part of her training, she attends staff development workshops that describe the different personal learning processes of the students whose lives she will touch…
• He is a worker in Slovenia. His country’s economy is undergoing dramatic changes. New kinds of work are being done, and new kinds of workers are needed to do it, and the changes are threatening to leave him unemployed. He attends adult vocational training that helps him learn how he learns-and helps him expand his skills?
• She is an executive with a government-owned company in Italy whose mission is to help foster economic growth in her region. To create more qualified employees for the businesses she has identified as having growth potential, she is studying the ways people learn….
• He is a member of a group in Spain that studies Mediterranean cultures and supports cultural dialogue and human rights. To bring people together, he wants to study how they learn, and foster mutual tolerance for different ways of learning and experiencing the world of ideas?
• She is a member of a London-based organization working to give people throughout Europe more access to higher education. She seeks to make sure that neither gender, ethnic origin, nationality, age, disability, family background, geographic location, nor any other factor separates people who want to learn from the opportunity to learn.

What do all of these people have in common?

All are part of the Grundtvig Project, sponsored by the European Commission. The project makes use of the principles of Let Me Learn to help students, workers, business managers, and the nations they live in maximize human potential. It is based on this principle: Educators and human resource developers can create an environment in which they can hear the voice of the learner, understand the learner, and guide the learner toward success.

Each nation involved in the Grundtvig Project is developing a training model and curriculum to help adult learners succeed, based on the brain-mind connection and the Interactive Learning Model described by Let Me Learn. Learners are understanding the processes and strategies they use to learn, and trainers are creating environments that respect the diversity of students’ learning processes.

Together, trainers and learners are recognizing how the differences among learners affect success in the classroom and output in the workplace. Each nation is using the Let Me Learn techniques to enhance economic development training, to train adult learners who are changing careers, or to aid adults who are returning to school in order to increase their potential as employees. This is exciting work–work with tangible benefits for both the individual and the society.