Resource Title
Globalisation: The Youth and The Truth
Summary
This youth work resource focuses on Globalisation and our relationship and connection to a globalised world. Relationships and connection are core principles of youth work and in working with young people. It is these everyday interactions, conversations, stories, that define the culture of a group and organisation.
Understanding the relationship and connections we have with global issues and global movements is also important in the development of young people and working with groups of young people.
How well young people understand their relationship and connections with global economics, culture, the environment, political forces, and technology may determine the sustainable future of the planet.
Resource Details
Description
The activities in this youth work resource are intended to provide support in exploring and building our understanding of globalisation and its effect on our lives. What does extreme wealth have to do with globalisation or the role of colonialism on today?
- The activities set out to identify the ‘right pathways’ to engage, change and live with globalisation and more importantly to recognise them, to navigate them with confidence, to face our struggles along the way with compassion and empathy while recognising that we all have the right to start somewhere, and we should aim to leave no-one behind.
- The focus on Globalisation is supported by taking a Personal, Local, National, and Global view of issues – these are known as the PLiNGs.
Using a range of 16 activities familiar to educators and youth works, with an addition of new ones, the resource looks at the role Globalisation plays in all of our eyes by looking at the Five Faces of Globalisation:
- The Environmental Face of Globalisation
- The Cultural Face of Globalisation
- The Political Face of Globalisation
- The Economic Face of Globalisation
- The Technological Face of Globalisation
Available from:
Download Globalisation: The Youth and the Truth PDF (9.6MB)
Visit the Youth 2030 programme and One World Week updates at the National Youth Council of Ireland