VET STUDENTS APPEARANCE CONCERNS AND THE INFLUENCE ON COMPLETION RATES IN VET AND ON ACCESSING THE JOB MARKET
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This project is supported by the European Commission through the LLP programme
project n° 2013-1-NO1-LEO05-06154
Negative body image can adversely affect a person`s self-esteem which, in turn, impacts on all other aspects of his or her life, from school and work performance to daily interaction with friends and colleagues. The negative consequences cut across all key areas of living, including health, psychosocial wellbeing, education and vocational functioning as well as contributing to social exclusion. These negative consequences are recognized as formidable obstacles and therefore the EU highly encourage national governments to address these issues.
THE AIMS OF THE PROJECT AND TARGET GROUP
All of these facts bring the Mirror, Mirror project into focus: with its aim of developing a teacher training pack that addresses the consequences of negative body image. The project sets itself the aim of lowering dropout rates and increasing completion rates of VET students in partner countries by focusing on precisely those dropout aspects seemingly ignored or avoided by others when addressing the same issue. By promoting awareness about these issues to teachers will ultimate contribute to an easier and more successful training completion and access to the job market for the students.
THE MAIN PRODUCTS ARE
• A Training pack with didactic guidelines for VET institutions throughout Europe, stakeholders in VET, businesses with apprentices and other interested parties
• Workshop materials for educators like research materials, assessment forms, handouts, research summaries and reflection questions
• 2 year cooperation plans for cooperating institutions
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