Catch up with work project How working life

Catch up with work -project How working life tutors can enhance the employment of immigrants in guided peer groups? Satu Kinnunen University of Tampere Right to Education -workshop 27. 4. 2018

Catch up with work -project • • New model to enhance the employment of immigrants Especially women with no previous working experience Peer groups and mentoring In Helsinki and in Tampere Project organisation • Working life institute (Työväen sivistysliitto) • Trade unions (JHL) • Employers (HUS Desiko, Palmia) • Education organisations (TAKK, HELAO) • Civil society organisations (Naistari, Monika-Naiset, Pakolaisapu)

Working life tutors • • • They have work experience from Finland Native language is Finnish or other Voluntary working after the training > responsibility of peer groups TRAINING • Inter-cultural communication • Guidance of groups • Information about Finnish working life and educational possibilities • Best practical ways to learn Finnish THE TRAINERS • Työväen sivistysliitto, Pakolaisapu, JHL, TAKK / HELAO

Research task in my thesis The training of the working life tutors as a miniature of society as a playground of different kind of actors and as an arena of self-understanding The approach is hermeneutical, so I want to understand 1. 2. What is the aim of the training according to the trainers? 3. What kind of learning, self-understanding and meanings the training creates and improves? What are the aims of the trainers and how do these aims show up in the content and implementation of the training?

Research data 1. Interviews 10 theme interviews of the actors 2. Observation Training of the working life tutors in Tampere, 25 hours 3. Written documentation Self-evaluations of the working life tutors The results of my thesis can potentially improve Cath up with work -project´s trainings during the project period 2017– 2020.

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