Reflector

Background Over the years reflection has been gaining more and more importance and value as an essential part of significant learning. It has also firmly integrated in youth work and has become an inherent element of almost all kinds of youth work activities. There is almost no one who would argue its necessity and benefits for non-formal learning in youth work, nevertheless many of us still wonder how to facilitate reflection in a way that would bring meaningful learning experience and support transformation. Recently various researches and foresights have been made on the vision for the future of education and competencies that young people will need in the future. Thus, the OECD Learning Compass 2030 offers a broad vision of the types of competencies learners will need to thrive in 2030 and beyond. The components of the compass include core foundations, knowledge, skills, attitudes and values, transformative competencies and a cycle of anticipation, action and reflection (AAR). The AAR cycle is presented as an iterative learning process whereby learners continuously improve their thinking and act intentionally and responsibly in the interest of collective well-being. Objectives Objectives: - enhance competences of youth workers to facilitate learning processes and support young people’s development through reflective practice; - provide and enrich youth workers with hands-on, innovative, accessible resources to support learning; - increase capacity of the participating organisations through enhancing cooperation, - exchange of good practices and developing innovative approaches; - gather reflective practices, methods and tools and create intellectual outputs: an App for facilitating reflection with young people and guidelines for youth workers on how to use the App for that purpose. Implementation Transnational and online project meeting Developing IO1 - the App Developing IO2 - Guidelines (INDEX - INTRODUCTION TO THE REFLECTION IN NON-FORMAL LEARNING) Local events Testing with youth workers and young people in participating countries Visibility and dessemination of the project results Achievements IO1 : the Reflector App The Reflector App was created with the aim to make reflection in the youth projects and activities more varied, accessible and mobile. Aim is to foster quality improvements in youth work through increasing the quality of reflection process with young people in non-formal education in order to support the development of agency and active citizenship. IO2 : Guidelines (INDEX - INTRODUCTION TO THE REFLECTION IN NON-FORMAL LEARNING) This booklet is a complementary document to the Reflector App and is offering some deeper understanding of reflection in the learning process with young people.