Online Course for Teachers
Children and Youth as Agents of Positive Change
Session 6 – Children and Youth as Agents of Positive Change
Dear participants,
Welcome to the last session of this course.
During the previous sessions you were introduced to the Transformative Pedagogy and its different elements, how they are interconnected and how to create safe, inclusive and participatory learning environments, while supporting children’s socio-emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
Children’s meaningful engagement and active participation through collective and collaborative actions is what we ultimately want the learning experience to be, bringing together children of different background, faiths, beliefs and cultures.
The agency of the child is at the heart of the Transformative Pedagogy. One of the strongest components of the Ethics Education Program is that children and young people are empowered to take action and develop their own initiatives for community engagement and transformation.
During this session we invite you to become inspired by child-led initiatives and to identify how you can involve children in your own context, ensuring that they are actively engaged and empowered to start collective actions.
Inspiration…
Watch this animated video about a child-led project: “The Food Bank”, a project initiated by Arun, a young boy from Coimbatore, India who at the age of 14, together with several other children, impacted the lives of thousands by initiating a food bank. This project was recognized by Arigatou International as the Most Inspiring Children-led Project in 2018, for articulating spaces for children to reflect about the ethical challenges in their communities, with support and opportunities for them to develop their own initiative to respond collectively to the needs of the most vulnerable.
Similar to how Arun and his friends were inspired, empowered and supported to lead collective actions to transform their community, we can also invite and support the agency of children to respond to the ethical challenges they face during the Covid-19 pandemic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJmqhN1xYZk&feature=youtu.be
Enabling the Agency of Children
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consultation
Are you interested to to follow-up this course with an implementation of a specific ethics education programme? or do you want to discuss a longer-term collaborations and partnership with Arigatou International Geneva ?
You can now book a time slot for an online consultation time with Course Facilitators and Arigatou International Geneva team members, Ms. Vera Leal and Mr. Suchith Abeyewickreme to discuss your ideas. This is not a course requirement but an additional support offered for those with specific ideas for followups.
Toolbox
Here you will find several resources that you can use with children aged 4 to 18 in intercultural and interfaith contexts, to support you creating safe, participatory and context-sensitive learning opportunities supported by our Ethics Education Transformative Pedagogy.