GLOBAL YOUTH WORK: PROVOKING CONSCIOUSNESS AND TAKING ACTION MOMODOU SALLAH

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GLOBAL YOUTH WORK PROVOKING CONSCIOUSNESS AND
TAKING ACTIONMOMODOU SALLAH
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objective

• To highlight different terminologies and focus on
  process
• To share Global Youth Work Conceptual models
• To share defining characteristics of Global Youth
  Work
• To provoke a reflection on the effectiveness of
  our practice in building a more humane world

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What is it call?

• Global Youth Work
• Global Education
• Education for Sustainable Development and Global
  Citizenship (ESDG) (Wales)
• Global Citizenship
• International Humanitarian Education
• Global Learning
• International Youth Work
• Development Education in Youth Work and Global
  Justice in Youth work (Ireland)

Sallah (2009) Cotton (2009) Dare to Stretch
(2009) (North-South Centre 2010)
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Definition

• Global Education is education that opens
  peoples eyes and minds to the realities of the
  globalised world and awakens them to bring about
  a world of greater justice, equity and Human
  Rights for all.
• The Maastricht Global Education Declaration
  (20022)

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What is GYW?

• Is concerned with how the concept and process of
  globalisation impacts on young peoples realities
• Is based on the principles of informal education
• Promotes consciousness and action
• Challenges oppression and promotes social justice
• Located in young peoples realities

• DEA (2004) Global Youth Work Practice Training
  and Resource Manual
• Bourn, D. McCollum, A. (eds) (1995) A World of
  Difference making global connections in youth
  work. DEA London
• Sallah, M. Cooper, S. (eds.) (2008) Global
  Youth Work Taking it Personally. Leicester
  National Youth Agency.

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Connect, Challenge, Change
DEA (2010)
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Woolley (2009)
Woolley (2011)
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Dimensions of the Global Education Concept
(North-South Centre 2010)
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Making PLiNGs

• a) an analysis of events and developments
  happening at micro level in the nearest reality
• b) selection of specific themes related to those
  events
• c) recognition of connections with the macro
  world and the emerging dialogue between them
  (North-South Centre 201021)

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Sallah, M. (2014) Global Youth Work Provoking
Consciousness and Taking Action. Lyme Regis
Russell House Publishing
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Why does GYW Work?

• Informal and experiential learning
• New learning stretching the imagination
• Generation of curiosity View the world in
  someone elses eyes
• Young people as co-producers of knowledge
• Symbiosis of consciousness and action
• Sallah, M. (2013) Evaluation of the Global Youth
  Work in Action project (2010 - 2013). London
  Ycare International

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Conclusion

• GYW can be a catalyst to provoke consciousness
  and bring about change
• Is it a plaster on a broken bone or an
  anaesthetic?
• Is it from the Missionary Position or critical
  consciousness?
• Global Youth Work is not only out there but in
  here too.