TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Ramon Tena Pera
This long-term project aimed at promoting Human Rights Education through the use and adaptation of stories (tales, myths, fables, etc..) as an inseparable part of the heritage of the Euro-Mediterranean region.
Specific objecives for this training were:
- To increase participants’ understanding about Human Rights.
- To develop specific skills of storytelling and using voice and language as a tool.
- To identify relationships between stories from different regions of EuroMed and
Human Rights values.
- To explore the possibilities of using these stories as a pedagogical tool for Human
Rights Education and Intercultural learning.
- To create tools which participants can implement in their local realities for
Human Rights Education.
This activity fits into AHEAD's goals as it helped in spreading HRE as a tool for common understanding between citizens; in addition, it helped participants in working with children and youth, the main target group for AHEAD.
The project was developed in three stages, with three residential training courses. I was involved as a full-time trainer in the last residential seminar.
The course was aimed to educators active in the world of childhood and adolescence, both formal and non-formal education (teachers and youth
workers), with special emphasis on young educators working with groups at
risk of social inclusion and with fewer opportunities.
Participants came from the following countries:
Poland, Egypt, Jordania and Spain.
Team of trainers: for this residential training, the team was made of trainers coming from Bulgaria, Jordania, Egypt and Spain.
This training was based on non-formal education methodologies: role-plays, experiential learning, activities... For example, there were workshops on story-telling and building puppets to use with children, or activities and role-plays to reflect about children's rights coming from HRE manuals (like Council of Europe's Compasito, i.e.)
I believe that both the overall activiy and this residential seminar were a success. First of all, they helped participants to reflect on Children's rights in ways. But specially, because participants developed interesting tools that they later used with their target groups.
For example, a group of participants developed a tale on a group of animals that had to flee their forest due to a wildfire and explained its difficulties in finding a new home. The story was supported with drawings. This was later used in Jordanian schools to work with children on the issue of Syrian reffuggees.
https://canyamakan.wordpress.com/
http://andorramediacio.com/2014/01/15/resultats-del-taller-can-ya-makan-a-egipte/
http://aheadedu.org/can-ya-makan-a-egipte/
The whole project consisted in three residential training courses. The first two were held in Spain (March - April 2012) and Jordan (August 2012).
I was involved as an organiser and trainer in the third residential seminar, in substitution of one of AHEAD's trainers, that due to personal reasons was unable to attend the training course).
As a team member, my role was to help in assessing participants' applications, prepare the programme, conduct different training activities (specially those related to HR and Children's rights) and support participants in developing their own tools for working with their target groups. After the training, I also participated in assessing the training and the whole Can Ya Makan project.