PAF: TRAINING DEAL SIGNED IN RUSSIA – II
Window
on the PAF
In
an undated Russian-language page on PAF's website, Rector Andrea
Zsebe greets Russian-speaking readers, with an emphasis quite
different from that of earlier materials in that language. Previously
this had been directed primarily towards recruiting individual
families to bring their children for short-term CE experiences at the
PAF in Budapest – the new emphasis is on marketing the
attractions of its conductor-training.
This
page has been published in the website's News section, in Hungarian –
...The
maximum number of students at the College is 330 people... our
graduates have a competitive knowledge that suits the requirements of
the labour market, after graduating they will become specialists
appreciated and sought after at home and abroad...
We
ensure that applicants for our conductor specialism are familiarised
with conductive-developmental work through a framework of open days,
we organise preparatory courses and tests of professional
suitability, and provide an opportunity to pass this exam in advance.
For those enrolling in the first week of the school year, we organise
a 'preparatory week' to help them adapt. To ease a busy schedule of
theoretical and practical activities, a student recreation room has
been opened and a students' sports club established to organise
sports activities. We strongly support the work of the Student
Council in all ways. We organize open forums in topics that are of
the greatest interest to our students and continuously expand the
programme to cater for the talented.
In
the field of practice, on average 500 children and adults, mainly
with motor disorders, are involved in different ways each year under
PAF's supervision, in full-time or intermittent conductive
development, in day classes or residentially. Typically, we run
Hungarian public-education and international conductive-development
groups.
The
strategic goal of academic activity (with its connected specialism)
is
continuous development of our existing programmes, taking into
account changing professional and public needs, and starting and
accrediting new forms of education. Together with the Chancellery
(responsible for financial management) an important goal is repeated
application of the Institute's theoretical and practical knowledge,
and continuation of our scientific and special projects.
We
would like our Institute to be disciplined, effective and capable of
development, preserving and developing its broad domestic and
international connections – and worthy of society's long-term
honour and of the respect and interest that have surrounded it over
recent decades and now surround our work of conductive, developmental
and educational work.
Andrea
Zsebe, Conductologist, College Lecturer, Rector
Russian
report of this signing
The
following report (also undated) has been published of the website of
the Nekrasov College in Saint Petersburg, in Rssian –
During
a visit of a Saint Petersburg delegation to Budapest in December
2016, on the instructions of Zhanna Vorobyeva, Chair of the Education
Committee, the Education Committee's Department for Validation and
Professional Development of Teaching Staff of Nekrasov College
carried out preparatory work on a cooperation agreement for
co-operation with the András
Pető
Institute for Conductive Education. During a visit of a Hungarian
delegation to the Consulate General of the Republic of Hungary in
Saint Petersburg, this agreement was solemnly signed by Tatyana
Golyadkina, Director of the College, and the Institute's Rector,
Andrea Zsebe. During talks at the Consulate General of Hungary on 30 [sic]
April 2017, the institutions discussed specific programs for
exchanging experience, interacting to training specialists, and
holding joint events.
On the
Education Committee's behalf, on 29-31 March 2017 the Nekrasov
Pedagogical College organised a delegation from the András
Pető Institute of Conductive
Pedagogy to the Saint Petersburg International Pedagogical Forum.
Hungarian colleagues visited the city on the Neva River to get
acquainted with the system of work of specialists in the field of
education in St. Petersburg with children with disabilities. Within
the framework of the visit, Hungarian colleagues took part in the
plenary session of the Sain. Petersburg International Educational
Forum 2017. They visited the Nekrasov Teachers College, where they
were presented with the experience of training teachers for the Saint
Petersburg education system in the specialisms 'Special Preschool
Education' and 'Correctional Pedagogy in Primary Education: «Adaptive
Physical Culture»'. The delegation visited combined Kindergarten No
120 in the Vyborg district, where for more than 25 years specialists
have in a literal sense of the word helped pupils with infantile
cerebral palsy to stand, and the local
Medico-Psychological-Pedagogical Commission of the of Saint
Petersburg's Kalinskii District, that does early detection and
rehabilitation of children. The Institute's Rector, Andrea Zsebe,
acquainted her colleagues from Saint Petersburg with the rich
experience of the institution that she heads, and took part in a
lesson with the children.
'We
are pleasantly surprised by what we saw in two days' staying in Saint
Petersburg. The system of training specialists and educating children
with disabilities has been very interesting for us – it is a
'smart' system, in which, as we understand it, rich traditions are
combined with a constant movement forward and with development. That
is why the successes of Saint Petersburg teachers are so
significant.
'We
look forward to further fruitful collaboration with colleagues from St.
Petersburg' members of the Hungarian delegation remarked.
It's a different world!
Meanwhile
back in the Hungarian media, there has been not a peep about this
Russo-Hungarian agreement. They have more than enough to keep
themselves busy with over Hungary's national and international
higher-education furore that is still playing out around Budapest's
CEU (Central European University)
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