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Tools for Social Development
Tools for Social Development
Start date: Oct 1, 2015,
End date: Oct 1, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
"By introducing theatre and drama method to a group of children excluded from school who suffered from low self-esteem and behavioural problems, we succeeded in bringing a much-needed sense of pride and self-confidence in their abilities." - Cathy Woolley - Outreach and Community Involvement Officer, Historic Royal PalacesDrama and Theatre has significant implications in inclusion and in learning, although it still searches for its place in school’s everyday life. Participants through Drama and Theatre learn to cooperate and not to compete with each other, to approach knowledge via experiential learning, with emotional involvement, to solve problems, to take decisions, to acquire empathy, and to recognize otherness.The major aim of this training course is to support youth/social workers to develop their competences in empowering young people with fewer opportunities to become aware of, and act on, their dreams and visions of their own futures.The number of young people who are NEET is increasing, 61% of unemployed in EU 16-24 year olds are NEET, this statistic is even worse in Western Balkans.Many youth workers all over Europe are trying to create environment of safe empowerment to help young people with fewer opportunities to develop their competences and to explore what dreams and passions they might have for creating not only a better future for themselves but, potentially, also to making more of an impact on the society they live in.This project ''Tools for social development'' aims to increase the competencies of the participants to use different arts tools and methods such as theatre, drama, storytelling, drawing, painting, and photography for self-development of young people with fewer opportunities on one side and for social development of their communities on the other side.‘‘Theatre for Development’ was initially inspired by Paulo Freire, a Brazilian cultural and educational theorist and practitioner, who believed that people possess knowledge through life experience but are persuaded by the oppressor to believe that their knowledge is irrelevant.This project will bring in practice lots o theatre tools and art methods, together with our participants we will develop and create different performance and other creative products with strong message of importance of social inclusion and social development of our societies.With project ‘’Tools for social inclusion’’ we intend to contribute to effective inclusion of youth in the process of building a modern European society based on tolerance, solidarity, equal chances and respect for differences.