The toolbox – The manual that changed the game in adult education, or Sport as a way of learning.

As previously mentioned, one of Mundus Bulgaria’s projects – the  Strategic partnership “Adult Education Through Sport (aETS)“ between Bulgaria, Poland, UK and Italy, has published its first manual, which main goals are:

  • To outline the practical approach – tools and materials, in which sport can be integrated in the daily education of adults in different sports organisations;
  • To present the advantages and better results of such informal educational approach over the traditional ones;
  • To show a step-by-step detailed exercised that can be taught to adults, teenagers and even children as a way of learning;
  • To promote the overall non-formal education in Europe and beyond.

Thanks to the so-called “Appreciative Inquiry (AI)”, adults are motivated to learn in the process, not through results. The individual strengths are promoted in the team and organisation, thanks to sport activities, in a friendly, non-competitive way. It is a method to integrate disabled members of the community as well. The main ideas behind this methodology are:

  • Education through sport is education in the first instance
  • Reflection is an inevitable and essential part of the learning process
  • aETS respects values of sports as well as non-formal education and lifelong learning

The manual shows 12 detailed exercises, which are easy to follow and applicable in the process of learning.

 For more information on the project and for further news in non-formal education, please follow the link:  https://aets.myerasmus.net/aets-toolbox/

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