Welcome to CLD Scotland!

This website is a prototype, designed as a portal to relevant resources for all members of the CLD community, including students, educators and CLD workers.

The website includes links to theory, tools and general resources for a number of areas of work, for CLD in general and for CLD educators and students.

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Find out more about the Scottish Communlity Learning and Development
Work-Based and Part-Time Training Consortium and the Extending Educational Opportunity Project at http://www.cld-consortium.org.uk/

It is a prototype of what may come. Any and all feedback would be most appreciated.

Please note: the search facility is currently being installed and will not operate. We hope to rectify this shortly.

Developing CLD Scotland

This website was initially developed as part of the work of the Scottish Communlity Learning and Development Work-Based and Part-Time Training Consortium. The Consortium brings together stakeholders with an interest in the provision of CLD work-based and part-time training.

This website was initially funded by a Strategic Change Grant from the Scottish Funding Council as part of the Consortium's work into extending educational opportunity for CLD in Scotland and drew on the resources development work by Laurie Bidwell for Community Education students at the University of Dundee. It draws on the input of many members of the Consortium, and we would like to take this oportunity to thank them for their insight and suggestions for its development.

Now available: Situating the Curriculum: Developing An Integrated Approach to Work-Based and Part-Time Training in Community Learning and Development.

This report analyses work-based and part-time routes to professionally endorsed qualifications in CLD in Scotland, outlining the strengths of different modes of training, academy-workplace relationships and teaching and learning processes.

The report argues that work-based learning presents significant opportunities for developing critical competence; that the key to success is in helping learners to connect work experience, programme content and their own professional development; and that much depends on unlocking the potential in the respective roles and contributions of training providers, employers and learners.

The report proposes a model for work-based learning that requires three interlocking elements: ‘responsive academies’ attuned to the needs of work-based and part-time students, ‘expansive workplaces’ systematically supporting learning and development in the workplace, and ‘active learners’ who take responsibility for their own learning.

Download the report.

Contact CLD Scotland

CLD Scotland is now being developed by the Department of Higher and Community Education at the University of Edinburgh.

To discuss the website, suggest resources or help develop content, please get in contact with John Bamber at john.bamber@ed.ac.uk or +44- (0)131 - 651 6116. Alternatively, you could contact John through the feedback form.

Managed by The University of Edinburgh on behalf of the Scottish Community Learning and Development Work-Based and Part-Time Training Consortium
as part of the Strategic Change Grant for Extending Education Opportunities to Community Education and Development.

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Website updated: 16 June 2008