Wirkungsnachweis aus der Literatur
high level of youth voice and empowerment in Finnish youth work
Mitsprache und Mitgestaltung
Another contrast which became evident during the project was the differing approach to young people’s voice and youth empowerment across the five countries. A good example of this was exemplified by the aghast expression on an English youth worker’s face when the Italian coordinator responded to her complaint that she only had sufficient resources to open the centre once a week by asking, ‘Why don’t you give the young people the keys?’ This was by no means a throwaway comment, as Italian youth work has a distinct culture of ‘youthled’ projects where young people are given a lot of responsibility for the ownership and control of the facilities. In part, as will be seen shortly, this could be explained by the higher age of the young people associated with the Italian youth work in this study. However, the attributing of greater ownership and control also occurred in youth work organisations on this project which worked with young people in their mid-teens. Finland appeared to be the most advanced in terms of youth empowerment – for example, through the Finnish youth work empowerment model ‘Ruuti’, a participative budgeting process in Helsinki Youth Department which devolves significant proportions of its budget to a group of young people to decide how it is spent.
Beschreibung der Aktivität
The Erasmus-funded project entitled Developing and Communicating the Impact of Youth Work in Europe (DCIYWE) engaged three youth projects in each of the five countries of England, Estonia, Finland, France and Italy.
The Erasmus-funded project entitled Developing and Communicating the Impact of Youth Work in Europe (DCIYWE) engaged three youth projects in each of the five countries of England, Estonia, Finland, France and Italy.
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age range of respondents: Estonia - 7 to 23 (average 14,2), England - 10 to 20 (average: 14,6), Finland - 12 to 29 (average 17,7), France - 11 to 29 (average 17,8) and Italy - 14 to 35 years (average 25,3)
Einrichtungen/ Träger der Kinder- und Jugendarbeit
Evaluierung der Aktivität
Each youth work project then implemented three cycles of transformative evaluation over a period of one year, between July 2015 and July 2016. The identification of youth workers and stakeholders was left to the discretion of individual projects. [...] In each cycle each youth worker aimed to generate twenty significant change stories using the following prompt question: ‘Looking back, what do you think has been the most significant change that occurred for you, you and your peers, or you and your community, as a result of coming here?’ [...] Recording stories can be done in two ways. First, handwritten notes can be taken during the conversation; however, it is essential that any notes are read back to the young person to check that they accurately reflect the essence of their story. The story is more valid when recorded in the young person’s own words. Alternatively, the young person can write their story directly. Where possible, a story should be written as a simple narrative describing the sequence of events that took place and their significance to the young person. In terms of story length, generally the young people’s stories tend be a paragraph (three or four sentences) but some may be much longer and some shorter. They should not be o short that vital information is left out.
Estonia: 164 England: 143 Finland: 123 France: 134 Italy: 151
July 2015 to July 2016
Finland
Sammelbandbeitrag