Empowering youth (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

1-5

Objective

You will be introduced of successful youth work practices, which are used for social empowerment of young people in Europe. You will be orientated from theoretical and scientific perspective of preventing social exclusion, enhancing empowerment and employability of youth. You are acquainted of common contents of the course, which are inclusion, participation, empowerment, active citizenship, and employability. You understand the significance of these subjects in terms of well-being of youth.

Content

The course introduces successful youth work practices, which are used for social empowerment of young people in Europe. The course is divided on five different sections “Common content”, “Equality”, “Experiential learning”, “Employment” and “Online community/ mentoring”. All sections have topics about the topic in general, an intro, target group, best practice/ examples, methods, recommendations, and further readings/ information. All sections and their topics are gathered to their own interactive books that contain text, articles, pictures, and videos. All sections also have a quiz about the topic.

Teaching methods

This is a nonstop start and students can start their studies approximately within a week after enrolling on this course. Students have three months to complete this course. This course is for CampusOnline-students, not for Xamk degree students.