Youth leadership
Youth Leadership is an educational program that exists in almost all English-speaking countries. It promotes learning through action and is part of civic education .
The idea is to train young people in such a way that they are able to initiate and lead projects - for example in their community - and, if they are no longer able to continue the project, to train other young people to do so can then continue the project in their place. Projects that have arisen through service learning in schools , for example , can then be continued by these trained young people.
The stated goals of the leadership programs are:
- the systematic promotion and development of the social potential for democratic leadership;
- developing a self-reflective and self-critical sense of leadership among young people;
- promoting self-confident and responsible behavior;
- imparting the basic skills necessary to exercise leadership ;
- handing over responsibility to young people and providing feedback on their performance. (Sliwka, p. 51)
In Germany one finds something similar in the training of leadership skills among scouts , group leaders of the youth fire brigade , Christian groups, political parties , but less so in non-governmental organizations , communities or districts and actually not at all in schools.
For example, Speakers Corner Munich's KIDS project is methodically based on Toastmaster's International Youth Leadership Program.
See also
literature
- Anne Sliwka: The Anglo-American Example. Volume 2 , Weinheim 2001. ISBN 3-935696-02-7 (can be ordered free of charge from the Freudenberg Foundation)