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Provoking Consciousness with Global Youth Work

Explore the impact of Global Youth Work on building a more humane world. Discover key terminologies, conceptual models, and defining characteristics. Learn how global education promotes justice, equity, and human rights for all. Reflect on the effectiveness in challenging oppression and promoting social justice among young people. Uncover the symbiosis of consciousness and action through informal education principles. Join the movement of Global Youth Work as a catalyst for positive change in today's globalized world.

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Provoking Consciousness with Global Youth Work

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  1. GLOBAL YOUTH WORK: PROVOKING CONSCIOUSNESS AND TAKING ACTIONMOMODOU SALLAH

  2. objective • To highlight different terminologies and focus on process • To share Global Youth Work Conceptual models • To share defining characteristics of Global Youth Work • To provoke a reflection on the effectiveness of our practice in building a more humane world

  3. What is it call? • Global Youth Work • Global Education • Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship (ESDG) (Wales) • Global Citizenship • International Humanitarian Education • Global Learning • International Youth Work • Development Education in Youth Work and Global Justice in Youth work (Ireland) Sallah (2009); Cotton (2009); Dare to Stretch (2009) (North-South Centre 2010)

  4. Definition “Global Education is education that opens people’s eyes and minds to the realities of the globalised world and awakens them to bring about a world of greater justice, equity and Human Rights for all.” The Maastricht Global Education Declaration (2002:2)

  5. What is GYW? • Is concerned with how the concept and process of globalisation impacts on young people’s realities • Is based on the principles of informal education • Promotes consciousness and action • Challenges oppression and promotes social justice • Located in young people’s realities • DEA (2004) Global Youth Work Practice Training and Resource Manual • Bourn, D. & McCollum, A. (eds) (1995) A World of Difference: making global connections in youth work. DEA: London • Sallah, M. & Cooper, S. (eds.) (2008) Global Youth Work: Taking it Personally. Leicester: National Youth Agency.

  6. Connect, Challenge, Change DEA (2010)

  7. Woolley (2011) Woolley (2009)

  8. Dimensions of the Global Education Concept (North-South Centre 2010)

  9. Making PLiNGs • a) an analysis of events and developments happening at micro level in the nearest reality • b) selection of specific themes related to those events • c) recognition of connections with the macro world and the emerging dialogue between them (North-South Centre 2010:21)

  10. Sallah, M. (2014) Global Youth Work: Provoking Consciousness and Taking Action. Lyme Regis: Russell House Publishing

  11. Why does GYW Work? • Informal and experiential learning • New learning – stretching the imagination • Generation of curiosity “View the world in someone else’s eyes” • Young people as co-producers of knowledge • Symbiosis of consciousness and action • Sallah, M. (2013) Evaluation of the Global Youth Work in Action project (2010 - 2013). London: Ycare International

  12. Conclusion • GYW can be a catalyst to provoke consciousness and bring about change • Is it a plaster on a broken bone or an anaesthetic? • Is it from the “Missionary Position” or critical consciousness? • Global Youth Work is not only “out there” but “in here” too.

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