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Nordic institutions are developing

a new guidance concept

An ongoing Nordic Erasmus+ project
is developing a concept to improve
the guidance of both resourceful and
at-risk youth and adults: Targeted
guidance based on consequential
pedagogy.

Consequential pedagogy was
originally developed by the Dan-
ish pedagogy practitioner Jens
Bay through his almost 40 years
as principal of TAMU – a Dan-
ish vocational and education-
al training school. Since then, it
has spread to both Norway and
Sweden and a joint project was are essentially doing a lot of the cluding a book on consequential
set up with financial support from same things when they counsel guidance, 2 podcasts and a short
the EU education programme and experiencing success when movie, are already available on
Erasmus+. Read more about the doing it. The experience is that TAMU’s website.
programme under “Learn more”). consequential pedagogy can be
Now, this Erasmus+ partnership applied across educational insti- Learn more:
across borders investigates how tutions and target groups.” Participants: TAMU – Træningss-
consequential pedagogy can kolens Arbejdsmarkedsuddan-
strengthen the guidance and After 2.5 years of partnership de- nelser, Denmark; Haugaland
counselling of many different velopment, they all agree on the VGS, Norway; Bergeland VGS,
groups of youth and adults: both prevailing results: Norway; Krami Malmö, Sweden
the groups at the edge of the ed-
ucation system and labour mar- “Our employees gain a common Read the full article on the web-
ket as well as resourceful groups. pedagogical language on guid- site of the Danish Ministry of
ance and become more capable. Higher Education and Science
Kristian Gert Sørensen, the de- This means that they improve at View the materials on TAMU’s
velopment consultant at TAMU, supporting the students in finding website
says: alternative/appropriate actions.
Teachers and counsellors expe- Read about the Erasmus+ pro-
“The four participating institu- rience professional development gramme: https://ec.europa.eu/
tions are very different and we and they agree that consequential programmes/erasmus-plus/
work with different target groups. pedagogy is the way to go forward”, about_en
However, through the Erasmus+ Kristian Gert Sørensen says.
project, it has become clear that Line Ryge Deibjerg
our teachers and counsellors Materials from the project, in- Euroguidance Denmark