STREETWISE is a 7 day residential programme delivered by CIT Crawford
College of Art and Design’s Creativity and Change programme in partnership with Youth Work Ireland Cork.
Streetwise will host participants with partner organisations from
Ireland, the UK, Hungary & Italy.
The Streetwise programme provides a space to build skills, competencies, motivation and methodological approaches for Youth workers and organisations who engage young people to nurture competencies to enable them to grow as responsible, empathetic, resilient and critically engaged Global Citizens. It focuses on creative writing and urban arts for public engagement and the street as a place to communicate messages of Global citizenship and to advocate for justice issues.
WHY WE ARE WORKING WITH CREATIVE METHODS?
We believe that art &
creative processes can ….
- play an effective role in building empathy and connectivity
- facilitate deep and meaningful learning about ourselves and the work around us
- allow us to engage with other perspectives, views and ideas
- enable us to respond to issues and circumstances that concern us
- provide a power means to communicate messages and engage other in global justice themes
ACTIVITIES
Workshops engaging with the themes of
• Active global citizenship
• Global justice themes
• Advocacy and campaigning
Training in facilitation methods such as creative writing approaches to support young people to develop and articulate their ideas around themes that concern them.
Training in specific tools for creating street art that enables young people to express themselves.
• Making stencils
• Pasteups
• Collage
WHY ARE WE DOING IT?
-To support participants to nurture young people’s sense of
and understanding of active global citizenship
-To equip participants with facilitation skills that enable young people to find their voice and express their opinions, advocating
for local and global justice issues
-To explore useful competences for young global citizens and how to nurture these competences such as empathy, ability to advocate for
self and others, curiosity, initiative/ participation critical thinking skills
etc
-To support participants to develop practical skills that engage young people to create public street art expressing their opinions and
ideas. eg Graffiti, Stencil, Paste-ups.
-To nurture participants own creativity to enable them to
support young peoples creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship.
APPROACH
The methodology with focus on the model of learning that
connects the
HEAD- knowledge, know-how,
HANDS- Practical skills and motivation and initiative to be
active
& HEART- understanding, empathy, emotional relationship
to themes and connection to personal values and attitudes.
The training will guide the youth workers through an experiential
process that will help them develop their own personal connection to the themes
of active global citizenship, social justice and importance of initiative and
advocacy (head and heart)
The training will create meaningful spaces of reflection on
the experience and how it can be applied in their direct work with young
people. (Head and Heart)
The active experiential approach will support motivation and
passion to engage young people in themes and approaches and to put learning
into action (heart and hands)
The practical skills based elements will provide specific
tools to put the learning into action with young people (hands)
The programme will include Provision of Information about
Erasmus + to facilitate development of future collaboration in Erasmus +, youth
pass & DEOR workshops
Intercultural exchange will underpin the experience
A launch and showcase of work created will take place to engage
the public and others working in the sector
The training plans to create time for personal reflection
and connection with the themes as well as the focus on applying methodologies
to their with young people.
The working methods represent a balanced approach to
experiential learning with space for participant to propose topics and focus's
beyond the planned content for the training. The participants will build skills
in taking initiative and responsibility for their learning in a supportive
environment contributing to their social and personal development
The Participant young people/ youth workers will be actively
involved in each stage of the project, from inputting the design to proposing
topics and will consider the implementation of their learning in youth settings
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