UPCOMINGFIRST AND UNIQUE BACHELOR DEGREES IN LEADERSHIP AND YOUTH WORK
IN REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
Center for non-formal education—TRIAGOLNIK and South East European University have the honor to present you the First Faculty in Republic of Macedonia for Leadership and Developmental Community Youth Work.
The Bachelor studies in Leadership and Developmental Community Youth Work will come under the umbrella of the Faculty for Public Administration and Political Sciences. The aim of the Bachelor degree is to empower students with knowledge and skills in order for them to be able to take up the challenges brought on by the professional occupation of Youth Worker in the community.
Youth workers work with young people on their development and support young people, individually or in groups to deal with social, emotional and personal issues that they deal with in the process of growing into adulthood.
These students will be trained and capable of practicing their gained knowledge and skills in a variety of educational and social work organisations and institutions – governmental and non-governmental; from pre-school educative centers to high schools, from orphanages to youth clubs, youth projects and youth centers.
These Bachelor studies provide knowledge and skills from these areas: - FIRST YEAR: Youth work in the community, Adolescence, Work with individuals and groups, Working with conflict and diversity, Management in youth work, Introduction to training in the community youth work, Introduction in sociology
- SECOND YEAR: Community youth work and the society, Learning and development, Global surroundings and Environment, Special education, Health and community youth work, Professional community youth work.
- THIRD YEAR: Advance level: working with individuals, Advance level: working with groups, Advance level: conflict transformation, Management in community youth work, Practise in community youth work, Research methodology, Project research
THE PRACTICAL PLACEMENT will be consisted out of direct work with youth in organizations and institutions that do youth work and nonformal education. FIRST AND UNIQUE
This is a unique faculty where students will gain knowledge and skills through the implementation of non-formal education methods: individual work, work in pairs, group work, panel discussions, written work, self assessment, ice-breakers, team building activities, role plays and practice work, etc.
Non-formal education is an organized process of life long learning that opens possibilities for people to develop their own values, skills and competencies while making a balance with the ones gained in the frames of formal education.
Potential skills developed through non-formal education include: interpersonal skills, group work, organizational skills, conflict management, intercultural awareness, leadership, planning, coordination, discipline and responsibility. FIRST AND UNIQUE
The Bachelor degree for Non-formal education and youth work will contribute to the recognition and acceptance of youth work as profession.
One of the benefits for Macedonia to have Community Youth Work as a profession is the breadth of skills that it can add to the existing services that work with children and young people. It is not something that can replace social services for example, but it can fill gaps where this profession does not have a mandate to go. Community Youth Work has the luxury to spend more time with the young people and work with them in their personal and social development. Community Youth Work works with all young people regardless if they have specific needs or not - Nicholas Paddison, leading tutor of the specialized program for Leadership and Developmental Community Youth Work and experienced youth worker.
FUTURE YOUTH WORKERS, you have the possibility to participate in the creation of the european future of the Republic of Macedonia.
The course that we are implementing and the youth workers that we are creating as a result of it, is of great importance to the euro-integrative processes that Republic of Macedonia is going through. We are moving the process of having non-formal education as complimentary to the formal education system a few steps further with the purpose of empowering personal and professional competencies of young people, students and adults in education.
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