Area
This project operates in the East End of Glasgow which has some of the highest levels of deprivation and lowest levels of educational attainment in Scotland. The project has been developed by the voluntary organisation Parents of East End Primary Schools (PEEPS). PEEPS promotes family learning through a range of locally based educational initiatives.
Target client group
Previous participants in PEEPS programmes will be trained as peer educators to support other participants on courses and identify further educators.
Aims
The project intends to address issues of lifelong learning, social inclusion and social justice. It aims to increase literacies levels in the Glasgow East End SIP area, and the numbers of people involved in local community activity, through recruiting and supporting a number of peer educators.
Activities
The project will achieve these aims through building on existing activity being supported by PEEPS. Peer educators have been recruited from current PEEPS initiatives and trained to identify and support literacies learning in others involved in the PEEPS group.
This was done through:
- devising and implementing a training programme for peer educators
- each PEEPS courses being supported by two peer educators
- increasing the number of participants in PEEPS core programmes.
The aim is to recruit twenty six peer educators over the duration of the project. Part of the role of peer educators is to identify other potential educators and to encourage course participants to become actively involved in wider social justice issues in their communities.
Intended pathfinder legacy
To impact on the future development and delivery of adult literacies by developing a method for community capacity building.
Contact details
Cecilia O'Lone
Countdown East End
Bridgeton Community Centre
68 Dale Street
Glasgow
G40 4TL
0141 554 7290