YOCOMO - Facilitating learning attitudes - European Training Strategy

Facilitating learning

…means facilitating individual and group learning in an enriching environment, as well as establishing dialogue and ensuring cooperation with individuals, groups and communities. This requires youth workers to have the attitudes, knowledge and skills to support young people in identifying and pursuing their learning needs and to then choose, adapt or create methods, methodologies and digital tools in residential and online environments accordingly. Ideally, youth workers and the young people they work with trust each other. Youth workers actively support and enhance young people’s learning processes, self-responsibility and motivation and empower young people to improve their personal situation, stand in solidarity with others, and encourage their peers to do the same.

The single attitudes are summarised in different headlines that illustrate what “facilitating learning” means for youth workers attitude-wise. The “cluster headlines” do not name attitudes as such; these can be found through clicking on the lists.

Supporting young people in their learning processes depends on the position youth workers take about learners and learning. + -

Important attitudes connected to that:

readiness to trust young people’s capacity to direct their own learning
openness towards unexpected learning
consideration of failure as a part of learning
willingness to address values and norms, challenge perspectives and encourage learning
readiness to offer spaces for emotions in all situations, including online environments
readiness to apply self-discipline and self-directedness, especially when learning online

Appropriate methods need to be chosen and/or developed to be used in an activity. + -

The corresponding attitudes are:

readiness to stay up-to-date with existing methods, sources and tools
openness to using different ways and methods to encourage creativity, problem-solving and ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking
readiness to improvise

Youth workers are willing to reflect about themselves and the way they work. + -

Thus, connected attitudes what is required is the:

readiness to self-reflect to understand their own motivations

Youth workers provide accessible spaces for all young people – especially in online-settings. + -

Thus, helpful attitudes are:

awareness of any digital divides
readiness to explore strategies for more (digital) inclusion

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