scholarly journals Making Informal Adult Learning Visible. The Recognition of the Third Sector Professionals’ Key Competences

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 228
Author(s):  
Paolo Di Rienzo
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
The Third ◽  
Certification System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Key Competences ◽  
The Third Sector

The third sector represents a vast and heterogeneous universe that has a key role in society from both the social and civil points of view. It also represents an informal learning context where competence and knowledge are acquired, often in a tacit and indirect way. This research focuses on the key competences of the third sector professionals and on the pedagogical methods to make them visible and to encourage their recognition. The quantitative and qualitative data sources include: questionnaires, focus groups, and diaries. The results show that the informal learning of key competences by professionals is a primary result of their activities that should be given greater visibility. Six areas of expertise have been identified in order to classify the range of knowledge and competence. The pedagogical approach has highlighted the importance of the tutor who applies narrative tutoring methods to facilitate the recognition of competences and their enhancement for personal and professional development. The full enhancement of competences, considered as the strengthening of people’s reflection and planning potential, requires policies that can be effectively applied to the national competences certification system.

The Telework as an Organizational Innovation in the Entities of the Third Sector

2017 ◽  
pp. 570-584
Author(s):  
Ángel Belzunegui ◽  
Amaya Erro-Garcés ◽  
Inma Pastor
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Response Capacity ◽  
Traditional Organization ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Third Sector

This article discusses the role of the telework as an organizational innovation incorporated to the activities of the third sector as well as in the creation of networks and links between these entities. The telework has become a tool that has produced important changes in the traditional organization of the work, and has improved the inter- and intra-organizational communication, in addition to promoting the creation of extensive networks of collaboration in the third sector. The online connection and the provision made in telework mode have also served for the creation of a higher density of contacts between the entities that are grouped in the third sector, done so that it benefits the transmission of information and collaborative practices in providing services to the citizens. Its effectiveness consists in the speed that prints the response capacity of the social economy entities.

Building a Dynamic Model of Community Knowledge Sharing

2011 ◽  
pp. 812-819
Author(s):  
Geoffrey A. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
The Third ◽  
Informal Communities ◽  
The Third Sector ◽  
Community Space

Many case studies have been undertaken about how informal, sponsored, and supported communities of practice operate within private and public sector organizations. To date, however, no examination has been made of how informal communities of practice operate within the third sector, the sector of community, and voluntary organizations. The third sector has a long history of using community space, in various forms, either physical or notional, to engage individuals in discourse and informal learning. The rise of the network society has added value to this process by allowing active individuals to personalize networks through the use of technologies which enhance communication. The third sector is now demonstrating that individuals and groups are seeking to create open access knowledge-sharing spaces which attempt to combine face-to-face networks with computer-mediated communications to support informal learning between community development practitioners. This article examines the role of Sunderland Community Development Network in the creation of informal communities of practice. It pays particular attention to three key areas: 1. Community space: How core, active, peripheral, and transactional community spaces within third sector partnerships create an ebb and flow of informal communities of practice. 2. Personalized networking: How issue-based activity, inside and outside communities, can lead to the rapid appearance and disappearance of informal communities of practice. 3. Knowledge-sharing space: How core members of a third sector organization can create a dynamic model of roles within informal communities of practice capable of impacting upon processes of governance beyond the organization.

Understanding the Social Economy and the Third Sector

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Bridge ◽  
Brendan Murtagh ◽  
Ken O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Social Economy ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Third Sector

scholarly journals Third sector: the construction of an solidarity economy

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-112
Author(s):  
Gerusa Coutinho Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Capital Investment ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Solidarity Economy ◽  
Professional Qualification ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Third Sector ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Small Producers

The third sector is increasing in Brazil and it occupies a political, economic and social space, showing a diversity of formal entities or informal movements, defender of the most variety causes – street boys, AIDS, environment, professional qualification, woman, small producers, among so many other which represent the social fights in Brazil. In this context, this article aims to raise topics for discussion concerning the importance of the third sector in the country as an alternative of society organization in relation with its reality and necessities, besides stressing the economic importance of this segment in the GDP, work market and capital investment. Firstly, it shows a brief historic view of the third sector; secondly, it performs a debate about this concept; thirdly, it is shown the economic aspects and the perspectives that, in Brazil, are presented to it.

scholarly journals Employer supported volunteering programs in large corporations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Meinhard ◽  
Femida Handy ◽  
Itay Greenspan
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Strict Adherence ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Third Sector

The term Social Economy has been used for years to describe a segment of the economy that is neither driven by the profit motives of private interests, nor owned by the state to serve public interests. Often referred to as the third sector, (distinct from the private for-profit sector and public sector) it defies clear boundaries (Moulaert & Ailenei, 2005). Thus definitions of the social economy vary. In the US the term social economy is not used at all; there the third sector refers strictly to organizations that adhere to the non-distribution-of-profits rule stipulated by the US Internal Revenue System (Graefe, 2006). In Quebec, the term Social Economy has been in use for several decades, but refers to a partnership between state and third sector organizations and an exercise in stemming the tide of neo-liberal globalization (Graefe, 2001). In Ontario and the rest of Canada, reference to a Social Economy is more recent and the concept is applied in a broader manner, in keeping with some European notions of the Social Economy (Fonatan & Shragge, 1997). This broader conceptualization eschews strict adherence to non-distribution stipulations and includes cooperatives and social enterprises in addition to nonprofit organizations. Keywords: CVSS, Centre for Voluntary Sector Studies, Working Paper Series,TRSM, Ted Rogers School of Management Citation:

Building a Dynamic Model of Community Knowledge Sharing

2011 ◽  
pp. 14-20
Author(s):  
Geoffrey A. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
The Third ◽  
Informal Communities ◽  
The Third Sector ◽  
Community Space

Many case studies have been undertaken about how informal, sponsored, and supported communities of practice operate within private and public sector organizations. To date, however, no examination has been made of how informal communities of practice operate within the third sector, the sector of community, and voluntary organizations. The third sector has a long history of using community space, in various forms, either physical or notional, to engage individuals in discourse and informal learning. The rise of the network society has added value to this process by allowing active individuals to personalize networks through the use of technologies which enhance communication. The third sector is now demonstrating that individuals and groups are seeking to create open access knowledge-sharing spaces which attempt to combine face-to-face networks with computer-mediated communications to support informal learning between community development practitioners. This article examines the role of Sunderland Community Development Network in the creation of informal communities of practice. It pays particular attention to three key areas: 1. Community space: How core, active, peripheral, and transactional community spaces within third sector partnerships create an ebb and flow of informal communities of practice. 2. Personalized networking: How issue-based activity, inside and outside communities, can lead to the rapid appearance and disappearance of informal communities of practice. 3. Knowledge-sharing space: How core members of a third sector organization can create a dynamic model of roles within informal communities of practice capable of impacting upon processes of governance beyond the organization.

scholarly journals Third sector as a social actor: a possibility on social gerontology field

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-136
Author(s):  
Miguel Arantes Normanha Filho
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Aged People ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
The Third Sector ◽  
State Context

This article searches to enlarge the knowledge about the third sector, in a constantly changing world. In this analysis there is another factor to be considered: the aging process in a society that, resulting from factors as the better economic conditions, the increase of the medicaments efficiency, among others, result in an increase of the life expectation. Within this perspective, the third sector may perform in the next years a strategic role in services management for the aged population. The relevance of this article is linked to the phenomenon of the quick populational aging process and to the unavailability of adequate solutions for attending the demands and necessities of aged people – both at the State context and at the Civil Society – a situation that will permit to the third sector offer its portion of contribution and help to promote the social inclusion of the aged people.

scholarly journals The role of the social economy in the welfare regimes. An alternative to explore in time of crisis.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Urra
Keyword(s):  
Social Economy ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Voluntary Action ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Housing Cooperatives ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Third Sector

In the main areas of the welfare regimes, as education, health, housing, employ or social prevision, we can find teorical points of view about the public (sinonimous of State), the private (sinonimous of tradicional capitalism model) and the third sector (sinonimous of voluntary action). In this important areas, the social economy is able to articulate a proposal that understand the public as the comunitary, the private as a market who is able to empoderate the people and the third sector as a social participation area by the economical activity. In this way, we can notice that the social economy offer specific solutions and efficient models in each social area: education cooperatives, health cooperatives, housing cooperatives, mutualism movement, social enterprises... etc. All of them can play an important role lessening the crisis impact and proposing alternative solutions.

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