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Transformative Pedagogy has been incredibly helpful for me. It has led to a complete mind-shift in the way I saw education, particularly for young children. It is never too early to start learning about common human values, and TP needs to be applied holistically across all sectors of education.
I have mostly worked with youth (13-18), so my examples of child participation are pretty narrowed down to that specific age range. One initiative that we employ is youth-led committees, with resolutions on various topics for youth, by youth. The research, the teambuilding exercises, and the discussions are all youth-led. The young people involved have 100% ownership of their resolution, from its formulation, and its solutions to its publishing.
From the discussions I have personally facilitated, it is heartwarming to see motivated young people being inspired, connected to the world around them and most importantly, feeling empowered.
1. I’ve supported children’s active and meaningful participation in my community by first recalibrating my listening to active, engaged listening. This is step one of proper child participation in any project. The main challenge I’ve encountered so far was talking to other adult leaders into changing their ways of thinking, either when it comes to adult-child dynamics, children as decision makers etc.
2. I would like to enhance the long-term sustainability of our collaborative work with children, often times children participate in one off projects due to time constraints, I wish to change that.
3. Simply shifting peoples’ mindsets from tokenism (which is the norm, unfortunately), do meaningful participation
4. It is important due to the simple fact that children are entitled to more than a seat at the table, we owe it to children to show them that their VOICE matters, and isn’t taken for granted.
