DESCRIPTION OF THE LEARNING UNIT

This Learning Unit aims at providing young people and volunteers an overview of the different meaning of community, different aspects that contribute to build a community. Learners will explore this concept starting from their own context, analysing a local community and learn how to break it down and re-build it in order to acquire awareness of the different aspects that contribute to its creation and development.   

Main topics:  

• Community as a concept
• Different types of communities
• Analysis of a community
• Exercise: ladder of participation

Learning Outcomes:

• basic key concept of community
• self-awareness about control and borders
• skill set to analyse a community
• practical exercise for community analysis and youth participation

Keywords:

• Identity
• Belongings​
• ​Borders​
• ​Self-representation​
• ​Freedom/control​

How to follow this learning unit?

• Read the learning materials of this topic by clicking open the title banners
• Try the exercises proposed in the unit and widen your knowledge by checking the background reading materials

Background reading materials (optional):

• Blyth, D. & Roehlkepartain E. (1993). Healthy community, healthy youth: How communities contribute to positive youth development. Search Institute: Minneapolis, Minn.
• Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development (1992). A matter of time: Risks and opportunity in the non-school hours, Carnegie Corporation of New York: New York.
• Pittman, K. & Wright, M. (1991). A rationale for enhancing the role of non-school voluntary sector in youth development. Unpublished manuscript prepared for the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, Washington, D.C. ED364804