What is a workshop?

A workshop is a series of educational and work sessions. Small groups of people meet together over a short period of time to concentrate on a defined area of concern.

Purposes for workshops may vary.

Typically, a workshop has two components:

• Technical

  Example:

  Presenting theory in lectures and readings

• Applied

  Examples:

  Doing a project, producing a product, or writing a paper

Here are some examples of literacy-related workshops:

• Editors workshops
• Orthography workshops
• Song-writers workshops
• Writers workshops

• Planning a workshop
• What is apprentice training?
• What is distance training?
• What is self-study training?

• Knowles 1980:136

• Concept module: workshop
• In overview module: Glossary (Literacy): W
• In modular book: Glossary of literacy terms
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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