The main aim of the project
is to contribute to the mainstreaming of equality within the European steel
industry. First, the project will develop equality and diversity materials and
learning programmes for workers in the European steel industry. These will be
designed to address questions of inequality, exclusion and discrimination within
the industry. The learning programmes and training materials will address
generic equal opportunity concerns, as well as responding to the specific
equality and diversity ‘needs’ of different categories of worker. Second, a
set of briefing papers (on aspects of exclusion, discrimination, diversity and
equal opportunities within the industry) will be prepared and promoted. These
will identify areas of concern, as well as existing good practice, and make
recommendations for policy formulation by stakeholders to further promote and
value equality and diversity learning within the industry.
The
project will consist of a series of related activities, designed to identify and
address education and training needs in relation to equality and diversity
issues.
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First,
research activity will inform the development of the curricula and pedagogy of
the modules, and the development of a series of briefing papers.
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Second,
the project will develop and pilot/present the following:
(a)
design,
develop, test and assess on-line materials on equality and diversity themes for
inclusion within established industry
training programmes (where appropriate paper-based materials will be developed);
(b)
design,
develop, test and assess a tutor guidance handbook on equality and diversity
teaching and learning, aimed at trainers in the industry;
(c)
the
development and presentation of briefing documents aimed at stakeholders and
promoting equality and diversity teaching and learning in the industry.
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