YOCOMO - Assessing and Evaluating behaviours

Assessing and evaluating

… means developing evaluative practices to assess and implement appropriate change. Youth workers work to help and empower young people, the environment, and society to change for the better – supporting the development of collective and solidarity actions that stimulate change and transformation. Youth workers support actions that change policy and practice. This section also requires them to pay attention to the data gathered through online and digital tools.

The single behaviours are summarised in different headlines that illustrate what “assessing and evaluating” means for youth workers behaviour-wise. The “cluster headlines” do not name behaviours as such; these can be found through clicking on the lists.

A belief in young peoples’ ability to engage and participate is crucial to what youth workers do. + -

Thus, a supportive attitude means:

to trust in young people’s potential
to trust in young people’s competences for meaningful participation and change-making.

Civic engagement calls for curiosity, reflection and awareness of one’s values and social status and generally of societal developments and politics. + -

Thus, helpful attitudes are:

a readiness to critically reflect on one’s values
a readiness to critically reflect on one’s perception of privilege, personal motives and urge for social and political action
curiosity about political and social developments, including research and fact-checking of information obtained online.

Civic engagement means action - to take a stance and to behave in the face of injustice and other political or societal issues + -

Corresponding attitudes are

a readiness to stand up and speak out when social injustice occurs, no matter the perpetrator or the victim
a readiness to engage with relevant political and social processes and the life of the community and society(ies).

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