http://www.nonformality.org/2006/05/pick-two-or-go-freelance/ Education & Learning Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:44:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.nonformality.org/2006/05/pick-two-or-go-freelance/#comment-100 Jo Claeys Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:22:03 +0000 http://www.nonformality.org/index.php/2006/04/pick-two-or-go-freelance/#comment-100 Thank you for this article, I've read it with great interest. I decided to post a comment with no other reason then to underline the dilemna (and challenge at the same time) described in the article. It becomes indeed very challenging to pick 3! Thank you for this article, I’ve read it with great interest. I decided to post a comment with no other reason then to underline the dilemna (and challenge at the same time) described in the article.
It becomes indeed very challenging to pick 3!

]]> http://www.nonformality.org/2006/05/pick-two-or-go-freelance/#comment-68 Yael Mon, 08 May 2006 09:22:44 +0000 http://www.nonformality.org/index.php/2006/04/pick-two-or-go-freelance/#comment-68 I could not agree more - we are being pushed around! And what is even worse, this is not just an institutional trend, it is fast becoming a matter of policy at noth national and international levels. And once institutionalised as policy it becomes very difficult to change. It is in fact a matter of the value (or more appropriately, the lack thereof) given to non-formal educational work and what, at least in Germany, is called "political education". What is however ironic and really worrying is that this is happenning at time when more and more evidence is available to the effect that cutting such provisions as peer mediators in local communities where there are social problems, leisure / educational faciltities where there are significant numbers of "disaffected" young people and youth work activities in the areas of tolerance and intercultural learning can fast lead to social breakdown and explosion. On the one hand everyone in Europe is falling over themselves to try to grasp the European citizenship in youth work "quasi directive" of the European Commission and on the other the institutions are cutting the overall budget of the youth programme for 2007 - 2013. Needless to say the situation at the Council of Europe is even more critical. And at the national level in countries like Germany and France, where youth work has a long tradition of political education, the collective memory of the usefulness and worth of such work seems to have been lost somewhere. The king is dead! Long live the king! I could not agree more – we are being pushed around! And what is even worse, this is not just an institutional trend, it is fast becoming a matter of policy at noth national and international levels. And once institutionalised as policy it becomes very difficult to change. It is in fact a matter of the value (or more appropriately, the lack thereof) given to non-formal educational work and what, at least in Germany, is called “political education”. What is however ironic and really worrying is that this is happenning at time when more and more evidence is available to the effect that cutting such provisions as peer mediators in local communities where there are social problems, leisure / educational faciltities where there are significant numbers of “disaffected” young people and youth work activities in the areas of tolerance and intercultural learning can fast lead to social breakdown and explosion. On the one hand everyone in Europe is falling over themselves to try to grasp the European citizenship in youth work “quasi directive” of the European Commission and on the other the institutions are cutting the overall budget of the youth programme for 2007 – 2013. Needless to say the situation at the Council of Europe is even more critical. And at the national level in countries like Germany and France, where youth work has a long tradition of political education, the collective memory of the usefulness and worth of such work seems to have been lost somewhere. The king is dead! Long live the king!

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