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E-book The Provide Training Course : Contents, Methodology, Evaluation
The implementation of these professional training courses assumed a far more engaging significance than what is commonly assumed by those who believe it their exclusive prerogative to interpret the transfer of the skills re-quired to carry out given activities. It also drew attention to the need to mod-ulate the interpretative key to the social role associated with the activities to be carried out, in this case, the need to consider it a preliminary alliance, uniting the social scientist and the professional operator. The goal inherent in the effectiveness of the training provided by these courses, involved a complexity far beyond the simple preparation of pro-grammes aimed at enabling people to take full advantage of the training op-portunities offered. Despite territorial differences, the PROVIDE project succeeded in design-ing a model centred on three fundamental criteria: identification, prevention, care. The cognitive core of the course aimed at dealing with people rather than things, and was combined, therefore, with the charge-taking of victims of vio-lence and the ethics of the professions carried out or to be carried out. It was, therefore, a matter of drawing up a pilot model based on a system-atic approach capable of implementing the know-how needed by the profes-sionals working in the various reception centres who enrolled in the various editions – of the course, sixteen in all. The trainees presented their work ex-periences with a view to foregrounding the complexity of the effects on the conduct and behaviour of victims of proximity violence resulting from what they were subjected to as migrants. To describe the training model proposed in its entirety, it is useful to refer to its three main features: 1. the identification of training goals capable of providing specific tools, methods and skills; 2. the creation of a training-course prototype capable of integrating the proposed objectives and the relevant contents in terms of professional spend-ability; 3. the pursuit of goals/objectives that the prototype of the “Provide train-ing course” aimed at achieving in a tenaciously constructive and flexibly self-critical way, to make future trainees aware of the problems, like stress, underlying proximity violence which have an impact upon the professionals themselves and learning to cope with them. The training programme outlined in the set of contents designed to promote and strengthen the acquisition and development of specific skills regarding the phenomenon, besides a knowledge of the phenomenon, required an upstream employment of a productive kind of productive imagination. As to the second point, it required that the framework within which the concepts referring to the broader plan, be informed by a reflection on the issues relating to the professional skills to be enhanced. Then, an approach was shaped on the basis of active methodologies designed to cater for the professional training of adults and, within the focus groups, applied by em-ploying role play to enhance responsibility and boost understanding engage-ment with the users/beneficiaries of the reception centres. A training plan based on sociological and psychological, above all, on anthropological, dis-ciplines was also defined. This aimed at permitting the trainees to acquire empathic skills permitting them to see “through the eyes of others”, in the places and situations proper to reception of migrants, a characteristic which has now become a permanent mark of most asylum seekers/refugees who reach Europe. One important datum registered, about five months after the closure of the last edition of the courses, was that the numbers of applications for par-ticipation in the courses were far higher than the numbers of places available, despite the fact that, after the first edition, the subsequent ones the intake was increased from the initial eleven to the actual sixteen with the precise inten-tion of responding to the demand for training registered, especially in Lom-bardy and in Andalusia and in the editions held during the first half of 2019 in Tuscany, Sicily and the French capital. An equally comforting result was the popularity index registered at the end of the courses and obtained as feedback from rigorously-tested investi-gation tools used to appraise and above all assess the impact of the course upon the trainees’ real-life professional practice.
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