TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Thomas Schallhart
- Creating a space for experienced non-formal education (NFE) practitioners to exchange methods in the field of global education and for new NFE practitioners to learn from this exchange and contribute with their experiences in other learning contexts
- Exchanging methods of best practices of global education
- Bringing together different experienced youth and young adults working on global education (the
volunteering organisation SCI and its partners, NGOs and institutions focused on global education as well as
institutions of formal education)
- Fostering collaboration between different networks working on Global Education (Service Civil
international, Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations, Global Education Network of Young
Europeans, International Cultural Youth Exchange, Clean Clothes Campaign, European Network Against
Racism and more)
- Exchanging global education methods in a variety of contexts (volunteer preparation, schools, adults in a
work environment, in actions on the street/ open space etc.)
- Designing and implementing trial runs of new methods
- Raising awareness on NFE and global education; promoting NFE as a key tool to face current (geo)political challenges
- Extending the toolkit from the seminars in 2015 and 2016 with new methods proposed by the
participants
- Creating and implementing a public action in Vienna
The tool fair brought together 34 participants from 14
countries (Armenia, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Portugal, Sweden, Spain, Slovenia, Hungary, Finland, Poland and Croatia), the trainers were from Germany and Italy. The participants were practitioners of global education and/or non-formal-education in a youth context. This means that in their work they aim to encourage young people to actively learn about global challenges and their interconnectedness with their own life and society.
Some examples:
- Utopic thinking exercise: Dream journey, role play, discussions in small group
- YouTube party around global justice
- Open Space methodology
- Global Pub Quiz with quiz questions around colonial history and global economic relations
The strongest outcome is a renewed version of the toolkit “Picturing the Global South: The Power Behind Good Intentions”, which was already widely used by
global education practitioners all over Europe and is now more broadly usable and addresses more topics with a wider variety of methods still. The toolkit and
the project as a whole try to strengthen a discourse on global education that is focused on issues such as justice, racism and colonial history.
I was involved in every stage of the project, from the conception and writing the application, to finding partner organisations, creating the didactic concept, communicating with participants, facilitating the training, editing the toolkit and finishing the project.