The CLD model of practice is based on
common values, code of ethics and competences for practitioners in youth work,
community-based adult learning and community development. What value do you see
in this for practitioners and for communities?
It depends on the individual values and on the national, society values as well. Everyone should reflect on these values above and find common points in order to accomplish the raise their critical thinking awarness.
There are thousands of different job descriptions and having particular values help for guidance. when it comes to the competences, they are not easily transferable between specific practices with different aims and audiances. context appreciative practices could be the core of actions to be taken. there are new competences in various contexts languages etc. in some other context they may not be needed. Also competence shouldn't be the theoretical knowledge proven by certificates by the youth workers, they should be able to adopt their knowledge into the relevant context. In that sense the performance goes beyond the competence.
Madalina: so we have the recognition for the communites . The experiencing is more important than the pure knowledge.
Peter: it should be more appealing.
Exchange of ideas and development of youth workers can be important.
Peter: the values are important to make people involved and interested in the work otherwise they can have the lack of motivation. So once again we have touched the problem of this deep motivation and being interested in making the process with the other people. The person simply speaking needs to "like people" work with heart.
We also mentioned that in our countries the formal education is sort of very traditional not so much involving the students in the whole process.
Practitionners can slowly step by step help to change the system of working with the people (not only the young ones but also).
We also mentioned that so called "soft skills" are not enough appreciated in our countries even though they are important at every level of activities and since the youthworkers are the "soft skills" experts so they aren't also properly appreciated.
There should be a common set of values for youth work, community work and adult education
Core-values:
- voluntary participation
- cooperation between professions
- attention to the needs of young people, adults or the community
- supporting critical thinking and freedom of choice (not forcing young people to accept a faith or ideology)
- social justice
- empowerment