Teaching active offer: Proposal for an educational framework for professors

Not only do we need to train health care and social service professionals about active offer, we must also train their trainers (professors). Most professors teaching in health care and social service programs in French have not received training in teaching strategies to prepare future professionals who will one day work in minority Francophone communities. This prompted us to examine the most appropriate type of education for these professors. This chapter explores educational perspectives on andragogy and presents our conceptual framework for education, including the pedagogical setting and types of knowledge needed (content knowledge, skills [know-how], attitudes [soft skills], as well as how to put those into action [knowledge to act]), to prepare professionals to work in the area of active offer. Finally, we offer our thoughts on the particular issues and challenges of teaching active offer, as identified in a pilot project to implement education on active offer. Key Words: teaching active offer, official language minority communities, health care and social service professionals, pedagogy, andragogy, adult education

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