Workplace Education Practitioner?

Part of the discussion focused on terminology used in different roles and regions. The terms "Workplace Education Field", "Workplace Education Person" and "Workplace Education Practitioner" were used throughout the Forum to include not only educators and consultants, but also funders, and government and labour representatives working in the field.

Further discussion from the Forum:

• What other fields use the word "practitioner"? "Practitioner" suggests front-line, direct contact, but there are lots of roles within the field of Workplace Education
• Terms others use: Workplace Literacy Education, Workplace Specialist, Training Specialist

Workplace Education?

• Other "terminology tangles" included:
  

  - worker education/workplace education/workforce education

Certification/Accreditation?

Confusion around these terms seemed to relate to the level of recognition (how official is this?) and the definition of the recognizing body (from a formal body or as a result of a training program).

Standards/Best Practices?

Discussion related to whether or not one was more exclusionary than the other was, for e.g. did best practices "guide" without insisting, while standards explicitly state a minimum that might or might not be met?

Literacy?

- literacy/numeracy, essential skills, basic skills, foundation skills

Workplace Education Practitioners' Forum
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