Applications are now open for the Global Action Circles Program, a 5-month peer-to-peer learning journey for youth activists and adult allies who share a passion for education transformation.
Donor Name: YouthxYouth
Country: Global
Type of Grant: Program
Deadline: 07/31/2023
Details:
The YouthxYouth is a 5-month peer-to-peer program, where intergenerational cohorts of 10 activists, facilitated by the youth Hosts, co-evolve their visions, skills and projects through the exploration of a personal learning question. This learning journey culminates with a final Showcase at the annual Learning Festival, and was designed in partnership with Huddlecraft, an award winning social enterprise.
Themes
- Peace Education
- The knowledge and understanding of fostering widespread acceptance among everyone. It is the aspect of growing values and qualities which will enable everyone to live in harmony with their peers.
- It teaches peace processes such as negotiation, reconciliation, non-violent struggle, collaboration, acquiring values, knowledge, attributes, skills, behaviors to live in harmony with oneself, and the use of treaties and laws that can be used to reduce levels of violence.
- Supporting Youth Educators
- It involves advocacy for young educators to focus more on capacity building and ability to upskill as educators, being fully skilled and adept at employing all the technological and pedagogical strategies to help reimagine education.
- Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing
- It is peace, wellness and energy. It is not just about emotional and physical wellbeing, it is also about youth reaching the stage where they feel from within that they are empowered to drive the change they wish to see in the world.
- Funding and Fundraising
- In education is understanding that it takes courage to show leadership in times of need. Every solution must be contextualized to meet the needs of the people.
- Climate and Nature Education
- It raises young people’s knowledge of the ecosystem and encourages implementation through climate action. The bonding of environmental knowledge is essential for those navigating challenges to become eco-champions.
- Relational and Inclusive Education
- Learning that prioritizes the interconnection and embraces diversity of lived experience and learner autonomy. Relational and Inclusive Education focuses on the processes by which learners grow together and learn how they can all be with each other in more beautiful ways.
- Gender and Education
- Investigates the relationship between gender and education, including gender equity in education, feminist pedagogies and policies that target specific genders. One well known focus is increasing the number of girls in school.
- Gender and education may also be focused on boys’ disengagement from school, education that disrupts or upholds gender roles or on policies that prevent students from self-determining their gender.
- Technology and Education
- Exploring the ways in which technology can be used to improve education and personalize learning, provide access to educational resources, and promote global citizenship education. Raises young people’s knowledge on the challenges and prospects of using technology in education.
- Community-based Learning
- Understanding how what is being taught in schools can be connected to the communities they live in. Explores the different ways that community-based education can be used to promote learning and development.
- Community-based learning also recognises the many methods and sources that they can learn from and seeks to strengthen their journeys as life-long learners. The focus of community-based learning is what it means to learn beyond the classroom or school.
For more information, visit YouthxYouth.