Out of Classroom

Out Of Classroom is an Erasmus+ training course for youth workers (KA1) focusing on rediscovering the principles and methods of non-formal education that can be used while working with young people at risk of exclusion. Non-formal education is an extremely popular concept nowadays - many NGOs advertise their projects as based on participants' active involvement. Despite this, many of the youth workers organizing this kind of activities do not have a proper theoretical basis and understanding of what non-formal education should really entail. Through this training course, we would like to go back to basics and have an in-depth reflection on the concept, discovering what it really means and learning how to design, monitor, and evaluate effective, out-of-school projects for youngsters at risk. As a result, we want to our participants to start seeing non-formal education as more than just a buzz word and adopt it as a guiding philosophy that is a basis of their work. 

Objectives:

• exploring the concept of non-formal education and deconstructing the misconceptions around it, 

• reflecting upon the role of facilitators in the projects addressed to young people at risk and sensitizing them to the specific educational needs of those target groups, 

• sharing tools and methodologies and learning how to analyze them critically and adjust them to the  specific local context, 

• creating and spreading a tool-kit on non-formal education for activists working with youth at risk building a sustainable network of partner organizations devoted to working internationally.