Worker’s

Education
Govt. Schemes and
Initiatives
Meaning ILO

Workers' Education is a means of

providing workers and their
representatives with the training
they need to play an effective role in
the economic and social life of their
societies.
In India…

The Central Board for Workers Education

(CBWE),
Nagpur, Ministry of Labour,
Government of India
was established in 1958 to implement
Workers Education Scheme at National,
Regional, Unit and Village levels.
Structure
 In view of the specialized training needs to
tackle some of the specific issues by Trade
Unions, three cells have been established.
 (i) Industrial Health, Safety and Environment
 (ii) Education for Rural and Unorganised
Sector Workers and
 (iii) Women and Child Labour have been
established in the Institute.
 Objectives
 To promote critical awareness of problems, privileges
and obligations as workers and citizens;
 To enhance self confidence and build up scientific
attitude;
 To educate them to develop their organizations
through which they can fulfill socio-economic functions
and responsibilities in rural economy and strengthen
democratic, secular and socialist fibre of rural society;
 To motivate for family welfare planning and to combat
social evils.
ILO objectives
 Under the responsibility of the Bureau of
Workers' Activities, an important labour
education programme is delivered at the
International Training Centre of the ILO.
 The ACTRAV-Turin Programme responds to
the training needs of workers’ organizations
with the delivery of training courses, training
materials, specific projects and advisory
services.
Objectives
 Strengthening tripartism and social dialogue with the
development of bipartite and tripartite courses.
 Promoting gender mainstreaming in all the activities
of trade unions.
 Promoting the development of union networks with
the support of information technology and the
exchange of union practices and policies.
 Providing training to trade unions on ways and means
to be better involved in the enforcement and
development of ILO Standards.
Methodology of Workers Education:
 Responding effectively to the training needs of
its participants.
 It uses a participant-centered approach which
encourages the active participation of every
course member.
 It validates trade union experiences brought
by participants to the course. And it assists
trainers who deliver the technical components
of the courses.
 Information technologies, audio-visual aids are
provided in order to facilitate file sharing.
Training Methodology:
 A large variety of teaching methods is used in the
Programme’s residential training activities such as
 role-playing,
 case studies, and
 simulations.
 Almost all exercises are developed by dividing
participants into small groups.
 The exception is of final work-plans, which is
prepared by individual participants for their own
organizations.
Active Learning is the way…

 The main group of participants as well as further

comments and advice of the trainers are recorded and
included in the training packages provided to the
participants at the end of the course. The Programme
uses active learning techniques in its courses.
 Participants are not treated as passive recipients of
knowledge but as partners in the design and delivery
of courses.
 Active learning methodology is designed to recognise
the knowledge participants bring with them to the
course
Active Learning is the way…
 Active learning is participant-centred, with the trainer
assuming the role of a ‘facilitator’ – someone who
guides and supports the participants through their
learning experiences.
 Firm and rigid course structures are rejected in favour
of flexible course parameters which, at any stage,
can be negotiated by the participants and the trainer.
 Each week of a course includes an evaluation
session so that it can be re-oriented towards the
declared needs and wishes of the participants.