Les projets of Lois
courte durée
(by Pablo Urias)
objectives The essence of any social intervention project is to identify the goals they want to join.
This premise also applies to projects of short duration conducted with volunteers.
A project or goals are unclear guess, still, a terrible waste of energy.
And the goal of a project with children who are in a situation of social risk can never be "of" play "or" pass time ", it is necessary to provide recreation meaning later. Games and other leisure activities can be used to equip children with tools that help them overcome their situation.
Any project of social intervention should try to be useful to help transform the lives of its recipients.
can not consent to create just the "clean spaces" where children enjoy a peace and a friendly environment different from its usual context. Working in small isolated islands around him is a mirage useless.
must, in addition, use the resources available to guide, even minimally, the lives of children towards a better future.
mechanisms
The primary mechanism is the program of activities. This means planning in advance what activities will take place each day of the project, and provides three key benefits:
-It allows us to design educational goals. Planning requires instructors to think the project as a whole. It takes us directly to find appropriate targets and specify the total duration of the project.
-It helps us continuity. Only one activity that is repeated day after day can improve. In addition you can have complex objectives, and with it, get results education.
-It provides stability for children. Children who become accustomed to the same pattern activity log (repeated day after day) our advantage to open formative proposals. In addition, they adapt their mental models to those of formal education, such ways that also contributes to academic success.
The program in practical activities. Activities must be chosen at the sight of the goals we pursue and the specific characteristics of the group of children.
The most important characteristic activities must be its educational value. Like this, for example, games that require lots of physical activity may help release energy and learn to meet the standards. The active songs can be used (except for stimulation of psycho-motor) to promote linkages in the group and the collective sense.
But all this must orient the activities of greater transcendence and more temporary stability. The ideal activity for short-term projects are the workshops. For example, craft workshops, drama workshops, workshops, toys, music workshops.
workshop requires a defined number of children (which contributes to the feeling of working group), a schedule, and all activities to a single goal. Thus, a puppet workshop may include (in addition to games or songs that are used to better manage the group and make the workshop more fun) activities like writing a story together, build puppets, drawing scenes and arrange representation final.
The way to run the workshop should be, yet adapted to the actual situation. On one side the physical context. A workshop is not equal, if held in the plaza is a neighborhood of huts, as if the room grows in college. On the other hand, the characteristics of children: the case of children subject to usual excessive discipline, orientation activities will be very different than the case of children who are unable to accept social norms. The same thing if a group of children used to do everything in one group (the band of a neighborhood, always together) or children who come to know and are still very individualistic.
In any case, the final objective is that the draft brief intervention ale influence on the lives of children and the idea is that when the project ended, in the place they are sustainable results.
few examples.
On a field of refugee children do not know one-self, and they are absolutely devoid of any discipline.
In an area of \u200b\u200bhuts the children form a close-knit group, but they reject social norms and formal education
In a camp school children are subjected to excessive external discipline and have already formed groups .
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short-term recreational projects
(by Paul Urias)
objectives
The essence of any social intervention project is to identify the objectives to be achieved.
This premise also applies to short-term projects managed by volunteers.
A project without clear objectives is always a terrible waste of energy.
The objective of a project with children at social risk can never be "play" or "hang out" is necessary to give a deeper meaning leisure activities. Games and leisure activities can be used to provide children with tools that help them overcome their situation. Any intervention project that aims to be useful has to aspire to transform the lives of their recipients.
can not be satisfied with creating "clean room" where children enjoy peace and a friendly environment different from their usual context. Besides that, we must use all available means to guide, even minimally, the lives of children toward a better future.
mechanisms
The primary mechanism is the program of activities. Planning ahead for the activities will take place each day brings three advantages:
-allows you to design educational goals. Planning requires thinking monitors the project as a whole. Leads directly to locate and specify objectives tailored the duration of the project.
-Facilitates continuity. An activity that is repeated day after day can get better, can have complex objectives and yields educational outcomes.
-Provides stability for children. Children who become accustomed to the same schedule of activities repeated day after day are more open to the pedagogical. Moreover, adapting their schemes to formal education, which also contributes to school success.
The program is limited to activities. Activities should be chosen on the basis of the objectives and specific characteristics of the group of children. The
essential feature of the activities to be its educational value. So games that require lots of physical activity may help to release energy and learn to respect the rules. Active songs can be used, and how psycho-motor stimulation to promote ties in the group and a collective sense. But all activities must focus on greater significance and stability over time. The ideal activity for short-term projects are the workshops. For example, craft workshops, drama workshops, workshops, toys, music workshops.
A workshop requires a defined number of children (which contributes to work feeling group), a defined schedule and a set of activities to a single target. Thus, a puppet workshop may include activities such as writing a story together, build puppets, sets and organize drawing final representation.
The manner in which the workshop has to be adapted to the realities of context. On one side the physical context. It is not like a workshop organized in the forecourt of a slum, one that develops in the classroom of a school. On the other hand, the characteristics of children.
Thus, if children are involved regularly subjected to excessive discipline, the focus of activities be very different from the case of children precisely, are incapable of accepting social norms. The same happens if it is a group of children used to doing everything in groups (a neighborhood gang, always together) or children who have just met and are individualistic.
In any case, the ultimate goal is that the draft Brief intervention have an impact on the lives of children, that when the project ends, in the place are some results that can last over time.
