Matsh Youth Development Facilitating Youth Learning Processes Matsh Youth Development
Price: BHD 829

    Course details

    Learning takes place throughout life - in different ways, in different contexts. It's almost impossible to stop people learning, in some form or other, all the time. This is very useful for youth development workers. Learning is a powerful tool that we can use deliberately to improve knowledge and enhance skills. If you can direct learning along appropriate channels, then you will accelerate the process and help young people to develop very rapidly.
    The aim of this program is to introduce you to the ideas and practices of learning that are relevant to youth development work. The module focuses on the role of youth development workers as educators, or to put it another way, as 'learning facilitators'. We prefer this term because it indicates that your role will be to help and guide the very powerful internal learning processes in young people, rather than to control them.

    The module explores different theories of learning and their influences. It identifies the different ways in which people learn and the factors that inhibit or facilitate learning. It also considers experiential learning as a method that is appropriate to youth development workers, and examines appropriate strategies for face-to face work with young people and adults.

    Program Benefits

    When you successfully complete this program, you should be able to:
    Give an overview of important psychological and philosophical principles relevant to 'education for all' and youth development work.
    Describe the characteristics of informal education and apply this knowledge to youth development work.
    Make use of the techniques of informal and experiential learning in youth development work and enable other people to use it.
    Describe your own and other people's learning style(s) and mode of intelligence.
    Identify factors that help and factors that hinder people's learning, particularly in informal settings.
    Devise effective strategies for learning with a range of individuals and groups in youth development work.

    Who Should Attend?

    Youth workers in government departments, corporates and NGOs.
    Young leaders.
    Student activities coordinators.
    School and University teachers.
    Professionals responsible for youth policy formulation and strategy development.

    Program Outline

    Day 1

    What is Learning?
    Thinking about learning
    Experiential learning
    How adults learn best
    Self-directed learning
    Education for All
    A positive philosophy of learning
    Developing the whole person
    Lifelong learning
    Guiding principles

    Day 2
    Informal Education
    Types of learning and education
    Agents of informal education
    Implications for youth development work
    What Helps and What Hinders Learning?
    A good learning environment
    Factors that hinder learning

    Day 3
    Learning styles
    What is learning style?
    Learning style models
    Meeting learner needs
    Socio-cultural background and learning

    Day 4
    Facilitating Adult Learning
    Communication and participation
    Designing the program
    Selecting learning strategies
    Resources
    Implementation
    Evaluation Updated on 16 July, 2019

    About Matsh Youth Development

    Matsh is a Youth Development enterprise aims to provide developmental services and programs for young people. The main objective of Matsh is to professionalize youth work in the Middle East and North Africa region by providing Youth Development and Youth Work capacity building programs for youth workers, formulating code of ethics and standards for youth work sector in MENA region, providing policy and strategy development and management consultancy for youth development institutions.

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