Review article
DEVELOPMENT AND ESTABLISHMENT OF A SYSTEM FOR VALIDATION OF PRIOR LEARNING IN ADULT EDUCATION - EXAMPLE OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
Ivana Krešić Klaucke
; Ministarstvo znanosti, obrazovanja i mladih
Abstract
Validation of prior learning is the process of formalizing knowledge and skills acquired outside of formal education, i.e. different forms of informal and informal learning experiences acquired through work or unorganized learning. The term entered the Croatian educational space with the Act on the Croatian Qualifications Framework in 2013, but until the entry into force of the Act on Adult Education in 2022, the prerequisites for its introduction were not met.
The paper describes the development of the idea of establishing a system of evaluation of prior learning in the European, and finally in the Croatian educational area and analyzes the process of preparing the system, i.e. creating prerequisites for its final implementation in adult education. The context of the development and changes in the paradigm of educational programming in Croatia, which created the necessary prerequisites for the final implementation of the evaluation system in adult education, is analyzed in particular. The last part of the paper describes the implementation process of the project “Establishing a validation system of prior non-formal and informal learning in Croatia”, which was carried out by the Croatian Ministry of Science and Education and the Agency for Vocational and Adult Education in cooperation with the Main Directorate of REFORM of the European Commission and the Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD).
Keywords
evaluation of prior learning; evaluation of non-formal and informal learning; adult education; Croatian qualification framework; micro-qualifications and partial qualifications
Hrčak ID:
320822
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Publication date:
23.9.2024.
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