The Anholt Project Part II
Start date: Feb 1, 2013,
What if we could do a follow up project to the Anholt project from 2011 based on the results from the 2011 Anholt Project and still with the aim to improve the excisting research in the field of informal and non formal learning methods and tools, pedagogies and anthropological and social pedagogic fieldwork? What if our follow up project could get us closer to a valid documentation of the values and importance of these learning methods we explore in the project? And what if we could document why this method, that we want to explore, maybe could be useful in the field of working with an informal/nonformal approch through youthwork towards motivating young people to take responsibility for their own need for education and clarification in what direction they would like getting back into the more formal educational system ??Project IdeaWe want to go back to Anholt and improve our results so far by doing the project again. This time the idea is to gather 24 youngsters from 6 countries on the island Anholt in Denmark for a period of 2 weeks. On the island the youngsters will have to build up their own micro society. They will have to organize their own social structure in the camp across intercultural differences. They will have to organize the camp structure, eventual rules and cook all meals themselves. They will be supplied with the basic items for their maintenance in the island (money for food, equipment, tools, other material...etc.)The youngsters will have to use their skills (e.g. cooking, fishing, camp life, knowledge of nature, navigation, theatre, music, teambuilding and cooperation...) and share their experiences peer to peer in order to facilitate an informal/non formal learning invionment that will provide the participants with informal and non formal experience from the preparation phase until the end of the project. The youngsters should build up a small society where the young people living there are using and sharing their informal/non formal competences and skills to build up their own micro society. This way the youth leaders and observers are given a good opportunity to observe and try to document the meaning of/ways of acquiring and sharing informal/non formal competences and skills, observing behaviour of the youngsters in the process of generating their social structure in the camp. Once in the island the youngsters will have to make all organisation and decisions themselves. The youth leaders and observers will be the “support team”, who will only interfere in the process if the youngsters ask them to do so. The “support team” is a possibility for the youngsters to seek advice, mentoring and guidance, but only if they choose to do so on their own initiative. The “support team” will be in charge of monitoring and documenting the project through participant observation in a anthropological field research and a documentary video, and also to be the “material” providers for the participants along with arranging small and large scale tasks/workshops and excursions for the group to choose or not during the stay on the island of Anholt.
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