Curriculum guidelines for literacy training in liberal adult education 2017

The aim of this curriculum guidelines for literacy training in liberal adult education is to support education providers in setting objectives for literacy training, in selecting content and in assessing student learning. The guidelines also describes the starting points for the provision of education, the assessment of students’ initial competence level, the organisation of education as well as the support and guidance offered to students. The guidelines has been prepared in collaboration with liberal adult education organisations and invited experts. The Finnish National Agency for Education recommends that education providers prepare their curriculum based on this guidelines. The curriculum guidelines is effective from 1 January 2018. This guidelines can also be used in other similar literacy training if there is no national core curriculum for the training in question. An assessment table for the certificate is appended to the guidelines.