Study title

EduMAP: Interviews with Adult Education Policy-Makers and Personnel on the Social Exclusion of Young Adults 2017: Estonia

Dataset ID Number

FSD3296

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3296
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3296

Data Type

Qualitative

Authors

• University of Tampere. School of Education
• Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association (DVV International)
• Tallinn University
• The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• University of Szeged
• Loughborough University London
• Social Sciences University of Ankara
• University College London

Abstract

This dataset includes interviews with educational personnel and policy-makers in the adult education sector in Estonia working with vulnerable young adults. The interviews discuss contents of study programmes provided by the organisation, pedagogical approaches, gender equality, life management, social problems, socioeconomic status, and active participatory citizenship. The dataset is a six-interview sample of the interviews collected in Estonia for the Europe-wide EduMAP project (Adult Education as a Means to Active Participatory Citizenship). FSD's holdings also include data collected in the nine other EduMAP countries in their respective languages (the United Kingdom, Turkey, Spain, Romania, Latvia, Hungary, Greece, Finland and Germany). The EduMAP project was funded by the European Commission's "Horizon 2020" research and innovation programme (ID: 693388).

Different interview schemes were used for interviews with educational personnel and educational authorities. In the interviews with educational personnel, the first questions concerned the interviewee's job responsibilities, practices in the organisation, and the types of vulnerable learners with whom the interviewee worked. Teaching practices were discussed as well as special education available at the organisation, the students' economic situation, and the concept of active participatory citizenship. Regarding the organisation's practices, the interviewees were asked about, for instance, the work processes for designing new educational programmes, pedagogical approaches, and learning/teaching methods that they had deemed particularly appropriate for vulnerable learners. Many facets of the organisation's practices were discussed in terms of gender, i.e. how possible gender differences were taken into consideration in teaching.

Pedagogical details of the programmes were discussed in more detail with regard to, for instance, learning and teaching methods, contents of lessons, teaching processes, and the students' possibility of giving and receiving feedback. The interviewees were also asked what types of competences educational professionals working with vulnerable learners possess or should possess.

Finally, the interviews examined the impact of the programmes from socioeconomic and sociocultural perspectives as well as the perspective of social activity and legal-political awareness. Attendance and graduation rates were also charted as well as suggestions for the improvement of the programmes. The final questions concerned collaboration and networking with other institutions.

The interviews with educational authorities and policy-makers focused more on the national influence in educational policy, i.e. developing and implementing policies and legislation regarding vulnerable groups. In addition, these interviews discussed e.g. consulting representatives of vulnerable groups in developing policies, achievements and shortcomings of current educational policies, and the most important issues faced by vulnerable groups that should be taken into consideration in developing policies.

Background information includes interview id and the interviewee's employment field. One of the interviews is a group interview.

The dataset is only available in Estonian. Questionnaires and participant information sheets are only available in English. The data were organised into an HTML index at FSD.

Keywords

adult education; adults; disadvantaged groups; equality between the sexes; immigrants; social exclusion; social problems; social skills; socio-economic indicators; socio-economic status; special needs education; teaching; vocational education

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Vocational education and training (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Equality, inequality and social exclusion (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Individual datasets

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

Data Collector

• Tallinn University

Time Period Covered

2017 – 2018

Collection Dates

2017

Nation

Estonia

Geographical Coverage

Estonia

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Educational authorities and educational personnel in the Estonian adult education sector

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Non-probability: Purposive

The interviewees were chosen from within vocational education networks. Of the total nine interviews conducted in Estonia, six were chosen to be archived at FSD.

Collection Mode

Interview

Research Instrument

Interview scheme and/or themes

Data Files

Six ODT files whose total length is approx. 42 A4 pages.

Data File Language

The data files of this dataset are available in the following languages: Estonian.

Qualitative data are available in their original language only and are not translated.

Data Version

1.0

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Completeness of Data and Restrictions

The researchers anonymised the data. To prevent identification, e.g. person names and specific job descriptions were removed, and organisation names were coarsened. Anonymisations were marked with square brackets.

Of the nine interviews collected for the project in Estonia, six were archived at FSD.

Citation Requirement

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Bibliographical Citation

University of Tampere & Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association (DVV International) & Tallinn University & The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki & University of Szeged & Loughborough University London & Social Sciences University of Ankara & University College London: EduMAP: Interviews with Adult Education Policy-Makers and Personnel on the Social Exclusion of Young Adults 2017: Estonia [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2019-01-25). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3296

Deposit Requirement

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Disclaimer

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

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