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Sustainable Development for Youth and Youth Workers
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Sustainable Development for Youth and Youth Workers

Backbone skills of environment, pedagogy, business and local governance for Youth in sustainable development
Created byFlorin ALEXANDRU
Last updated 8/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • Shape the sustainable development training activities in line with individual's expectations in local communities
  • Master the stakeholders contribution to the local sustainable development
  • Acquire advocacy skills to engage local community in pursuing sustainable development goals
  • Master cooperation and negotiation skills to reach sustainable development goals at local level
  • Manage commercial companies concerns in sustainable development projects
  • Manage local authorities perspectives to achieve sustainable development goals
  • Improve your training activities using elements of psihology and learning theories

Course content

5 sections • 13 lectures • 2h 12m total length

  • Sustainable Development from Phychology standpoint5:58

    You will be able to use basic concepts from psychology and theories of learning to design the training activities in concrete terms, adapted to social circumstances and age group. The assignment makes use of your workplace or classroom practice training activities based on a conceptual framework of your choice. The simplicity of the assignment is adapted to age groups that need rapid, tangible results.

    For the Youth Worker, the capacity to design activities that respond to the need for directly applicable knowledge, which are short and obtain rapid results, is essential.

    In the domains of sustainable development and environmental protection, Youth appreciate concrete education actions that are tailored to their lifestyle, wishes and expectations. The diversity of these domains forces the Youth Worker to be aware of a multitude of subjects and be able to address them in a creative manner rather than searching for ready-to-go plans.

    This lecture, along with a list of essential external lectures and with a practice assignment - that is also meaningful on its own - will guide you throughout the hereby learning journey and in daily work.

    Youth Workers will understand what sustainable development is about from the psychology standpoint, and how the day-by-day life relates with the sustainability. The basic knowledge of psychology will help the Youth Worker to design the training and education activities with the objective of shaping the beliefs - which is a crucial objective of learning sustainability. 

    Starting from the path depicted in the video lecture, the Youth Worker is encouraged to read the Handbook of Social Psychology, chapters 1, 4 and 5 - for an overall view on the subject and chapter 11 for a psychological view on the working groups. 

    Further on, the Youth Worker is encouraged to consult the internet resources selected, to get a view on the theories of learning, up to a specific document about sustainability education.

    All this fundamental knowledge will serve at designing the activities professionally, to adapt the structure, length and objectives to the specific of the Youth groups, specifically to Generation Z ones which are diverse.

    Assignments simulate real cases. Once solved, the Youth Worker is encouraged to take a second look at the theme and reflect on how the approach will be received by the audience from the psychological perspective


  • Evaluate the capacity to operationalize the learning systems
  • Use learning theories to fundament education activity to mitigate energy wasting
  • Master transformative learning5:50

    The Youth Worker job is to challenge the minds of audience, to make them reflect and change their own beliefs towards sustainability, along with the social action. To do so, the Youth worker will learn how to master the transformative learning.

    The downloadable file about transformative learning applied in a case of environmental protection offers both an insight of the phases of the transformative learning theory - see table at page 2671 and a case study to guide you on the transformative learning approach.

    The selected external resources offer examples to study, from the world of Generation Z: digital universe and fashion.

    The assignment, based on the lecture and the external resources, will offer the opportunity to creatively use the gathered knowledge and skills for a specific case.

  • What is the most comprehensive outline of transformative learning
  • Practice transformative learning to reduce waste in fashion industry
  • Understanding Youth life satisfaction11:31

    Understanding Life satisfaction ensures the attractiveness of the training activities. The criteria used to define the well-being and the life satisfaction are translated into practical check list for training design. The external internet resources ensure a deeper understanding on the subject.

  • What are the key elements of Youth life satisfaction?
  • Get an interview of a friend or relative about environment and life satisfaction

Requirements

  • - You dare to be different!
  • - Basic knowledge about environment and nature
  • - Business management knowledge advisable, but not required
  • - Self-directed learning skills advisible

Description

What is so unique about this course?

This course is about how to teach to activate Youth socially in their communities.

We pull you out of the box of endless repetition of Sustainable Development Goals, to help you to land in your neighborhood social web of needs and interests.

The course steers the self-directed learning, by references to multiple external resources. The structure follows the path from the conceptualization to practical skills. At the completion of the course, you will be able to drive on your own on the learning lane. You will be prepared to adapt to a broad range of settings, circumstances and needs.

You are encouraged to complete the assignments, to practice and strengthen your capacity to elaborate training activities according to youth groups.


To whom is this course intended?

  • Experienced Youth workers and Youth activists, in addressing tough sustainable development issues.

  • Youth workers acting in extremely challenging and volatile settings.

  • Youth workers wanting to learn on their own, to enhance and adapt their skills to the very diverse sustainable development environments.

  • Advanced practitioners in the field of sustainable development.

  • Young people, willing to gain competence in sustainable development, to achieve rapid tangible results for their projects.

What you will learn in this course?

  • You will gain the skills to root the environmental activism into the psychology of the learning.

  • The lectures go beyond refreshing your knowledge about sustainable development - they are focused on social communication, advocacy, negotiations to make things happen.

  • The course provides insights to understand actual concerns of commercial companies and so drive them towards sustainable development.

  • The course delivers negotiation skills to compromise and close to reach sustainable development objectives here and now.

  • You will be provided with real-life knowledge about local authorities' role in sustainable development

You will see yourself differently and the end of the course

  • Completion of the course will raise you out from the crowd of people preaching sustainable development.

  • You will be more familiar with self-directed learning.

  • Cross-disciplinary learning will be at your hands.

  • You will become a practician and so attracting young people by your pragmatic, result oriented, action style.

What you will gain?

  • A time-saving, effective approach and set of skills to engage Youth in Sustainable Development.

  • A differentiation from other Youth workers, because of your capacity to understand commercial companies and local authorities roles and positions in sustainable development prospects.

  • A capacity to design and implement multidimensional actions and education activities for Youth

Course structure

The course structure guides you on a learning path from theory to concrete application:

  • First section introduces you into the psychology and pedagogy

  • The second section is a primer of sustainable development

  • The third section is about Green skills

  • The fourth section is about interaction with local governments

  • The fifth section guides you by examples of activities dedicated to sustainable development

Who is your guide in this unique journey?

Florin Alexandru has 30 years of experience in environmental protection and teaching. He is one of the first Youth Worker after the Romanian Revolution in 1989. He is qualified teacher of Natural Sciences. Furthermore, he used to work as scientific researcher in the Romanian National Institute for Environmental Engineering and many years as European Union policies' adviser.

His team includes Gabriela Staicu, Ecology Professor at the University, and communication expert in more than 10 European Union funded projects and contributors from 6 other European Countries and professor (r) Nicolae Galdean, along with the experts from the GenZ Consortium.

The course is based on the work of European Partners -GenZ Consortium, coordinated by Asociatia Pentru Dezvoltare si Mediu - ADEMED (RO): Ruse Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BG), Politeknika Txorierri (SP), linkgroup  (SB), Projects in Motion (MT), StepbyStep (HR), and Emphasys Centre (CY).

Upon completion you may request directly to the instructor the Certificate of Completion /Youth Pass.

This Course has been founded by the European Union, through the Erasmus+ Project 2021-1-RO01-KA220-YOU-000028774.

Who this course is for:

  • kind Youth Workers who want reach both the brain and the soul of their trainees
  • adventurous Youth Workers who are keen to enter into the world of debates and negotiations witvaliant persons who occasionally act as Youth Workers and want to address their youth audience exigencies h companies and local authorities to make steps forward Sustainable Development Goals
  • valiant persons who occasionally act as Youth Workers and want to address their youth audience exigencies
  • tenacious persons who think about becoming Youth Workers and obtain immediate identifiable results
  • Youth wishing to be active in their communities to support sustainable development

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