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Understanding Recognition in Youth Work: Bridging Language Gaps

Explore the significance of recognizing non-formal and informal learning in the youth sector. Discuss dimensions of recognition, responsibility, and the interactive process. Discover the importance of naming concepts correctly and valuing skills in youth work and education. Join the conversation on the evolving landscape of youth programs and occupational profiles.

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Understanding Recognition in Youth Work: Bridging Language Gaps

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  1. Youth working to get it right:sharing the language Bridges for Recognition Recognising non-formal and informal learning in the youth sector Leuven, 20 – 22 January 2005 Lynne Chisholm University of Innsbruck Institute of Education

  2. A rose is a rose is a rose ...... isn’t it? • naming things and thinking things • concepts may be wordless, but all terms reflect concepts • ... including words for objects such as a chair, for example ...

  3. Confusing terms confuses meanings Once we had a teacher and we called him tortoise. Why did you call him tortoise? Because he taught us. Lewis Carroll

  4. Dimensions of recognition • skills young people acquire by participating in youth work/education • youth work/education as a worthwhile endeavour • the quality of a specific activity, method or outcome in youth work/education • the (professional) competences of youth workers/trainers

  5. To recognise means to value • expansion and differentiation of youth programmes • emergence of new occupational profiles in the youth sector • growing demand for life skills in society and soft skills in the labour market

  6. Recognition is an interactive process • golden pins and pilots’ licences • value and usefulness don’t always match • social recognition and codified recognition influence each other

  7. Dimensions of responsibility • context-internal credibility for personal and social development • context-expanded credibility for codified recognition • accredited credibility for quality assurance of providers • trust and confidence are the keys to success: mediating instances are crucial

  8. Read your cheat sheet! brought exclusively to you with the compliments of your friendly walking dictionary, Lynne Chisholm

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