Frankly Speaking

Conceptualising and writing – an essential part of our work

Next to our work as educationalists and trainers, we are active in many different additional roles in learning activities. Whether as documentalist, rapporteur or rapporteur general, supervisor, corrector, evaluator or editor, we enjoy observing, thinking, conceptualising, discussing and writing as much as we appreciate the other aspects of our work.

Our new book ‘Where Do You Stand? Intercultural Learning and Political Education in Contemporary Europe’ with Dr. Hendrik Otten of IKAB and published by VS Verlag has just come out.

Where Do You Stand?

Intercultural Learning and Political Education in Contemporary Europe

Yael Ohana & Hendrik Otten (Eds.) 

VS Verlag, 2012. 276 pp. with 2 Fig. ISBN 978-3-531-18031-1

This book considers the many controversial debates about the theoretical underpinning, ideological positioning and political significance of intercultural learning in and for the European youth field. Contributors challenge the elevation of intercultural dialogue to panacea for all societal problems, the problematic position of notions of culture at the heart of intercultural learning, and accepted wisdom on the purposes, contents, approaches and methods of intercultural learning. In an attempt to breathe new life into what is criticised as a stagnant debate, this book asks those concerned with political education to rethink where they stand in relation to the basic principles of a practice in need of radical re-politicisation if it is to live up to the contemporary challenges putting its mobilisational capacity to the test.

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Examples of our previous projects in this area include the anthology “How big is your world” resulting from the “Europe, Youth and Globalisation” event, training kits on European Citizenship and Educational Evaluation, several documentations of residential seminars in the framework of Euro-Mediterranean youth work, an impact study of an institutional training scheme on European Citizenship, an edited volume on the prospects for democracy in Belarus, an edited volume on the democratic revolutions in Central & Eastern Europe, a publication on human rights in urban areas of Europe, and an edited volume on intercultural political education in contemporary Europe.

As with most of our work, many of these are co-operative publications and joint efforts of teams and organisations, and our contributions to these publications are diverse (ranging from contributor to editor, translator, or publisher). Some examples of work available for download follow:

• Baustelle Europa — Europaeische Buergerschaft und Jugend
• Discussion Paper on Intercultural Dialogue
• Educational Evaluation in Youth Work
• Gender Matters – A manual on addressing gender-based violence affecting young people
• Have your say! Manual on the Revised Youth Participation Charter
• “How big is your world?” – Europe, Youth and Globalisation – An anthology
• “Never Waste a Good Crisis”: The 2008 Economic Downturn and Post-Communist Civil Society”, published in the 2009 NGO Sustainability Index
• Prospects for Democracy in Belarus
• Practical Guide – Youth Exchanges in EuroMed Youth Work (forthcoming 2011)
• Quality in Training – Myth or Mystery?
• Reclaiming Democracy: Civil Society and Electoral Change in Central and Eastern Europe
• The Wheel of European Citizenship
• Towards a common culture of co-operation between civil society and local authorities
• Trading up – Potential and performance in non-formal learning
• Training Active Trainers in Euro-Mediterranean Youth Work
• Under Construction…Citizenship, Youth and Europe
• Young People at the Heart of Europe — A decade of the European Youth Centre Budapest
• The Eight Key Competencies For Lifelong Learning: An appropriate framework within which to develop the competence of trainers in the field of European youth work or just plain politics? (with Dr. Hendrik Otten)