Abstract
This chapter explores the contribution made by the Council of Europe to the Europeanization of learning through its commitment to promoting “non-formal education and learning”, within which “youth work” plays a pivotal role. Celebrating 50 years in 2022, the Council of Europe Youth Department has developed and diversified a range of projects and programs for its 46 member states, anchored within its distinctive participative and inclusive methodologies. The chapter draws on four illustrations of this practice: the international reviews of national youth policy 1997–2016; the Advanced Training the Trainers (ATTE) course that ran from 2001 to 2003; the “Madzinga” long-term training course (2002–2003) delivering experiential learning through outdoor education; and the pilot Master in European Youth Studies (2011). The increasing depth and diversity of the Youth Department’s activities have helped to produce a generation of young people with a European identity, an understanding of alternative ways of learning and teaching, and a belief in the transformative impact of transnational and intercultural learning.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Building Europe Through Education, Building Education Through Europe: Actors, Spaces and Pedagogies in a Historical Perspective |
Editors | Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz, Simone Paoli |
Place of Publication | Abingdon, Oxon |
Publisher | Routledge |
Chapter | 8 |
Pages | 168-184 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003247838 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781032162744 |
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Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 27 Sept 2024 |