TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Ragıp Zık
This project sought to integrate media and cyber hygiene tools into human rights education and youth work curricula. The project also attempted to create a counter and alternative narratives as a media output and disseminate this practice in the network. The study session brought together to youth workers/trainers already engaged and experienced in human rights education, members and non-members of HREYN.
The aim was to equip the member organisations and youth workers with the capacity to use media literacy educational tools in youth work and human rights education. For this cause, the following objectives were deliberated:
- to map the realities and needs of young audiences, those participants are in touch with, in terms of media literacy and cyber hygiene;
- to explore various tools in media literacy education and to promote critical thinking among participants by sharing with them the practices and experts’ input;
- to give space for creating and re-creating tools and methods in human rights education including an aspect of media literacy education;
- to plan strategies for integrating new practices into the agenda of the member organisations and network;
- to engage participants in the development of an action plan to dissemi- nate the study session outcomes.
The international team consisted of 4 internal trainers, 1 course director, 1 external trainer.
32 participants came from various countries in Europe. They were youth workers/trainers already engaged and experienced in human rights education, for members and non-members of HREYN. Priority was given to those, who provides a clear description of channels of competence/experience-transfer to their targeted youth audience. The activity was run in English and Russian with simultaneous interpretation.
Role-plays, simulation exercises, group work, workshops, buzz groups, etc.
The main outcome of the activity was the immense knowledge and skills in media literacy. Participants gained hands-on skills in combining human rights education with media literacy activities.
Apart from that, 9 workshops were created by participants and documented by the organisers.
https://www.hreyn.net/post/meet-the-workshops-from-strasbourg
I was an external trainer in the team. I acted both as an educational advisor representing Council of Europe and as a trainer, taking part in developing the pedagogical approach, designing and conducting sessions, running evaluation activities, and reporting.