Basic Training Methods in Transition Environment

Abstract

In many education and training institutions in the Central and South Eastern European Transition Countries, training is generally understood as a system of formal courses, not entirely different from education. To a lesser extent, training is based on the flexible training needs analysis based, training modules, courses workshops and seminars. It typically emphasizes teaching rather than learning. It is usually a one-shot exercise for an individual rather than an sequence in continuing, sometimes lifelong learning process and finally, it is understood as something done to trainees by an expert who is regarded as unquestionable authority – otherwise the training is considered irrelevant. The trainer or lecturer should not normally be strongly opposed in the classroom environment. Dialogues, student initiatives, lively classroom discussion with strong counter argumentation are still not dominant.