Solution Not Pollution - Building Problem-solving Skills of Youth to Address Environmental and Climate Change Issues
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There is ample evidence that young people all over the world are facing up to the climate change challenge. Global demonstrations in September 2019 were largely organised and led by young people demanding action. However, protest alone is not sufficient to address the climate change challenge. Action is needed on an individual and collective level to change peoples habits; to adopt more environmentally friendly patterns of production and consumption; and to find solutions to the climate change challenge we all now face. Education has a critical role to play if the protests of young people are to be leveraged into action and youth work in its many formal, informal and non-formal interventions is the perfect starting point to set the challenge to today's young people to think of solutions to reduce the many pollutions that contribute to the pace of climate change.Aims:1. To promote quality and innovation in youth work by building the skills of youth professionals to support them to address climate change issues in their formal, non-formal and informal learning/engagement activities2. To empower young people by building their critical thinking skills especially where climate change issues are concerned3. To promote entrepreneurship/social entrepreneurship by presenting the climate change challenges that face our society as business opportunitiesObjectives:1. To introduce challenge-based learning in youth work by modifying and transferring existing learning resources about WebQuest development to a youth work setting in a climate change context2. To develop a collection of challenge-based WebQuest learning resources that address a number of critical topics that address the climate change challenge3. To develop a bespoke entrepreneurship/social entrepreneurship curriculum specifically addressed to young people that supports them to find sustainable online/offline business solutions in a climate change contextTarget Groups:1. Front-line youth workers working in formal, non-formal and informal settings2. Young people who are interested in accepting the climate change challenge and trying to instigate change3. Young people who are interested in the business opportunities that the climate change challenge presents
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