Don’t Miss: Introducing Citizenship Education Forum Workshops
Visual thinking, pedagogical design, historical memory, development of local communities, psychological resilience of educators – this is an incomplete list of workshop topics that will be held as part of the Forum on October 22. We present brief announcements of these workshops.
Visual Thinking: How a Pen and a Paper Can Help You To Develop and Present Your Ideas Better
Workshop participants will learn how our visual thinking works and why it is so effective for the stimulation of our creativity. You will try the basics of sketchnouting, as well as visual mapping, which are wonderful tools for planning, education, business, social activities and self-education. The participants are going to learn easy ways to show their ideas to others so they will be understood.
Moderator: Yulia Knyupa (Ukraine/England).
Visual facilitator, graphic recorder. Co-author of the manual for teachers “Can you draw this for me”. Creates visual notes for educational events and strategic sessions, shoots instructional videos and teaches people the basics of sketchnoting.
Working language: English.
A (not) new point of application of efforts. Where should citizenship education go now?
We are all doing a lot to promote the values of civil society. But at the same time, we see that all this work gives results only for a very limited set of people.
How to handle this? There may be different solutions. And one of them is to look at the activities of citizenship education providers a little wider and find new points of influence on the current situation.
Who are we working with now? Who else influences our target audience? How can we “rebuild” this interaction? We will explore all this together during the workshop.
This will be a discussion without pre-prepared answers. We will look for them together in the discussion process.
Leader: Non-formal education coach, member of the Eastern European Citizenship Education Network EENCE
Working language: Russian.
Emotional self-awareness and literacy in dark times: Game tools developed in Ukraine to mitigate negative consequences in communities affected by war/crisis.
The participants of this workshop will try an educational product that can help the civilian population in a playful way realize their emotional state, make their mental health more stable in times of war and crisis.
Workshop structure:
- Learning of the creation history of the microqualification program “Emotional competence of a mentor”.
- Playing one of the game formats “On emotions”.
- Taking the first steps of developing your gaming product.
Participation in the workshop will help you meet the educational needs of people of different ages, especially in difficult times.
You will also learn more about your emotional competence.
Moderator: Kateryna Bilokhvist (Ukraine).
Public character, coach, facilitator, member of public youth organizations
Working language: English.
Mastering Critical Thinking as an Effective Tool for Fighting Fake News and Disinformation
The workshop aims to provide knowledge and develop skills on critical thinking (CT) and its application as an effective means for fighting fake news and disinformation.
It will consist of brainstorming, presentation, discussion, quiz-&-self-assessment, practical tips from the trainer.
As a result, participants will know:
— what critical thinking is;
— a model for developing and evaluating critical thinking
— how to increase your CT level
— how to translate the main approaches of this model into the context of fake news recognition.
Participants will also learn to independently assess the level of their critical thinking, recognize fake news and misinformation, and become more (self-)critical, reflective, sensitive and responsive to their own and others’ judgments and skills.
Moderator: Ani Kajoyan (Armenia).
Expert and researcher in the field of gender, educational and communication studies. Lecturer at Yerevan State University. Expert and coach of the LLC “Youth is power”. Expert and trainer of the EENCE working group “Women in Local Communities”.
Working language: English.
Shaping the Past: Collective memory formation and citizenship education in modern Georgia
Participants of this workshop will learn how the culture of memory developed in Georgia and how citizens and educational institutions were involved or excluded from this process.
Special attention during the meeting will be paid to why advocates of citizenship education should include topics related to the past in their programs.
Participants will also be able to share their experience of working with historical memory.
Moderator: Tamara Karaya (Georgia).
A political scientist and researcher with more than 10 years of research experience, teaching in the field of memory studies, citizenship education and research methodology. Her research interests cover memory culture, social movements, and civic education. As a project manager, Tamar has experience in implementing various national and international research and other projects.
Working language: English.
Civic vs Citizenship Education: Different similarities
This workshop is for practitioners, researchers and newcomers in the field of citizenship education who want to gain a deeper understanding of the differences between civic and citizenship education.
During this meeting, participants will take a quiz that will help to understand the differences between these concepts, get acquainted with inspiring projects, tools and methods that will help you work purposefully on your future projects in this area.
You will understand what skills and competencies you need, and how to make sure that you and your team can develop them during the workshop
Moderator: Nurlana Mamedova (Azerbaijan).
International non-formal education coach with 12 years of experience. Education: international economic relations, advanced European and international studies, international human rights, diplomacy.
Working language: English.
The role of young people in community development
The presenters of this workshop will share their own experience in implementing programs for young people, and also promote a healthy lifestyle!
By participating in this training, you will learn how to solve the problems by combining the citizenship consciousness of youth, concern for the environment and creative thinking, and will also be able to understand the connection between youth involvement in sports and their citizenship education.
Moderator: Edmond Khachikyan (Armenia).
Student of the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia, graphic designer Volunteer at “Armat Engineering Laboratories”.
Moderator: Mane Khachatryan (Armenia).
Co-founder of the startup “Phoenix Ecosal”, graduate/volunteer of “Finding Children of Armenia”. Student of the Faculty of Law of Yerevan State University.
Working language: English.
Art as a way to attract attention to social problems
Culture and art are unique tools for raising social problems and promoting sustainable development of society.
During the workshop we will talk about:
1) how culture and art can serve as a unique tools for raising social issues and attracting the attention of local authorities to existing problems
2) how can culture and art serve to unite young people and promote civic responsibility, citizenship education, democracy and human rights
3) our own success story at the stage of implementation and preparation of the EENCE project “Art for Action – make it visible”
4) the ideas of further cooperation.
Participants will be actively involved in interaction and exchange of experience.
The feature of the workshop is that it was prepared by representatives of 2 different organizations, Stella Ghazaryan from the Armenian Educational Foundation (AEF) and Tatevik Sephanyan from Erasmus), which will show different approaches and narratives.
Moderator: Tatevik Stepanyan (Armenia).
Student of Yerevan State University (Faculty of Spanish-English Communication), Spanish language tutor. Volunteer on SKYPE (Skills and knowledge for youth employment). Co-founder of the startup Ecoflam. The guide at the house museum is Lusik Aguletsi. Former student of the University of Almeria (Spain).
Moderator: Stella Ghazaryan (Armenia).
Volunteer of the Armenian Educational Foundation, studies at Yerevan State University (Faculty of Management). Graduate of business startup programs, media science, robotics. Ambassador of Demo Day (Startup Armenia Foundation). Participant of Mural Street Art “Art for Act” in the framework of the EENCE program.
Working language: English.
Strengthening the competencies of psychological stability of citizenship education specialists
The purpose of this workshop is to show to specialists various exit strategies after crisis situations so that participants can apply the knowledge and skills they have acquired to maintain psychological stability in any conditions and continue to develop this competence.
The moderator is a psychologist and an expert in the prevention of burnout syndrome, works with specialists of helping professions: teachers, social workers, doctors, NPO employees, human rights defenders, citizenship activists, journalists. Studies the issues of psychological stability, personal and professional risk factors of emotional burnout syndrome in specialists.
Working language: Russian.
How to take into account cultural and social diversity in educational activities?
This workshop is aimed at improving the competencies of providers of non-formal education in the field of working with people representing various social groups, including the socially vulnerable.
During the workshop, issues such as the concept of “identity” will be discussed; the definition of factors that affect the availability of fewer opportunities; the specifics of planning educational events taking into account the interests of people from different groups; educational methods that promote diversity.
Thanks to this, participants will better understand the value of building inclusive educational programs, plan and organize educational events better, taking into account the needs of different social groups, and will be able to develop their coaching competencies to encourage diversity at work.
Moderator: Nazarii Boiarskyi (Ukraine).
Human rights activist and coach of non-formal education. Member of the Board of the public organization “Incubator of Democratic Initiatives” (Ukraine). Expert of the Coalition on Prevention and Combating Discrimination in Ukraine. He has extensive coaching experience both in Ukraine and abroad. Member of the group of trainers of the Youth Affairs Department of the Council of Europe, coach in Erasmus+ projects. Author of a number of manuals on the use of educational methods and the problems of civic education.
Working language: Russian.
Involvement in social activity: an educational tool for building a stronger society
This workshop will give participants the opportunity to learn more about the tools that are the key to successful citizenship engagement of the younger generation.
Young people rarely show interest in social projects and to participate in most of the processes affecting the quality of life of society. Thus, the role of each educator, regardless of the topic of teaching, is to find solutions for involving young people in public life.
A number of tools that can be used by teachers, social workers and instructors working with young people and not only with young people will be presented during the workshop.
Moderator: Larisa Guzun (Moldova).
An activist in the field of education management, continuous professional development and youth policy development with more than 10 years of experience. Founder and general manager of the only teachers’ NGO in Moldova, whose goal is to provide teachers with career opportunities. The experience gained over the years has allowed this organization to establish reliable links with a number of international organizations, such as the Embassies of the United Kingdom and the United States, the British Council and similar associations around the world.
Working language: English.
How does educational analytics affect the quality of civic education programs
This is a workshop where participants will be able to try to develop indicators of educational analytics for their citizenship education programs and describe the image of a graduate/graduate of such training.
Participants will discuss the importance of defining the image of a graduate of the citizenship education curriculum, including in the behavioral aspect: what he/she will be able to do and will/should do after graduation. After that, participants will be asked to compile digital metrics for such a training program.
In conclusion, there will be a discussion on how digital data can help improve the quality of citizenship education programs and why it is important to regularly monitor and evaluate digital learning indicators.
Moderator: Vitali Nikanovich (Belarus/Georgia).
Pedagogical designer, developer of training courses in offline, online and mixed formats. The head of EduHub.Pro — An international platform for training in the field of health and well-being
Working language: Russian.
