UNDERSTANDING INCLUSION & DIVERSITY
Finally, at the fourth and last signpost, “Future Action”, we move on to the question - how can we put into practice our learning and the conclusions we have reached? Here we explore and identify practical youth work tools and methods we can use to undertake action to achieve greater inclusion in our society and to use diversity as a positive element of our youth work. As a team of trainers we regard the people we are working with as experts – experts in their fields, in their own life circumstances and in their sub-cultures. Again, be this a young person or youth worker. Involving the experts seems a sensible thing to do! So involving them in a project as soon as possible and at all stages, providing an added value, in terms of ownership, motivation, responsibilities, authenticity, process and quality, this would also seem to be an intelligent move. See also the ladder of participation on page 68 Xxx optional image DSCN 0724 picture of rafting activity –xxx
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