Non-teaching educators and trainers

Abstract

The complexity of the job market for “non-teaching” educators and trainers remains poorly understood, both with regard to the different professions within this professional area and to the variety of organisational positions to be covered. This variety relates to the highly skilled work activity that aims to meet learning demand through the design, production, delivery, management, and evaluation of educational goods and services, that are of social utility. These are occupations that are being developed in a market area connected to educational services, continuing education, on-the-job and embedded learning within public, private and third sector organisations. In this framework, this professional area appears in all its complexity and vastness. It can be seen as a set of professions, semi-professions and pre-professions that represent the skills developers and builders. This paper aims to provide pointers of orientation within this complexity with an in-depth analysis of some professions that do not belong to the school system.