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The Healing Power of Creativity in Prisons: how do we empower ownership for the Employment and Training Portfolio?

Resource Type: 

etf

PID: 

etf:2638

Description: 

A research report, poster, and journal exploring the use of Individual Learning Plans and Employment & Training Portfolios as tools to enable learners in prisons to measure their own progress and promote ownership of their learning.

Document: 

59 The Manchester College (OLASS).zip

Taxonomy: 

• EG Sub Sector (egproviders):

  • Other (Other)

• EG resource type (egresourcetype):

  • Research report
  • Research poster

• EG Theme (egtheme):

  • Curriculum delivery
  • Curriculum delivery › Individual learning plans
  • Curriculum delivery › Assessment (including diagnostic)
  • Research
  • Research › Practitioner research

• Practitioner Research and Evidence Hub (practitionerresearchandevidencehub):

  • Supporting learning
  • Supporting learning › Developing study skills
  • People
  • People › Learners
  • Teaching, Learning and Assessment
  • Teaching, Learning and Assessment › Diversity, equal opportunity differentiation
  • Teaching, Learning and Assessment › Learner motivation and behaviour

• PREP Curriculum areas (prepcurriculumareas):

  • Preparation for life and work

Practitioner Research and Evidence Hub: 

Yes

Principal focus of the project: 

This project's principal focus was tracking the creation of and improvements to Employment and Training Portfolios for learners in prison, and the effects they had on learner progress, self-identity and status as autonomous learners

What is this about and what were the main findings: 

The project found that Employment and Training Portfolios need to take learning needs of the learners into account, as well as the need to replace certain employability elements not required by older learners.

Number of learner participants: 

100+

Number of staff participants: 

11-20

Number of organisation participants: 

2-5

Name(s) of authors: 

Alison D Taylor - The Manchester College

Name of associate programmes: 

emCETT