{"id":68,"date":"2021-04-08T15:13:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T15:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jos.world\/yfj-policy\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2022-10-05T12:37:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T12:37:12","slug":"education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/education\/","title":{"rendered":"Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

The quality of education has been one of the key topics of priority for the European Youth Forum since its creation. It\u2019s a key element of all the Youth Forum\u2019s policy work because of its impact on all dimensions of the life of a young person, and in turn, in the life of a community as a whole. It therefore concerns everyone in society and it is essential that the Youth Forum and its Member Organisations contribute to discussions on how to improve access to, and quality of, education.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Youth Forum\u2019s main focus within the field of education has been on non-formal and informal learning, especially the education provided by youth organisations. It is generally acknowledged that school and universities alone are no longer capable of transmitting all the skills and competences on their own which young people need to succeed in contemporary society. In formal education systems, the emphasis is on the transmission of ‘hard facts’ by the teacher using traditional pedagogies in the classroom. However, the ‘hard facts’ of yesterday are not enough for young people to become active citizens and have a positive impact in the information societies of today. ‘Soft skills’, such as adaptability, intercultural awareness, critical thinking, communication and interpersonal skills, problem solving, leadership and teamwork are more and more necessary. It is not always possible to teach these skills in the classroom, as they are best “learned by doing” in real life contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Youth organisations provide such real-life contexts for learning soft skills, and thus serve as complementary, non-formal education and youth work providers to school and universities. Through their participation in various activities, young people are empowered to take responsibility for their own learning process, and to become active citizens in their society.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The quality of education has been one of the key topics of priority for the European Youth Forum since its creation. It\u2019s a key element of all the Youth Forum\u2019s policy work because of its impact on all dimensions of the life of a young person, and in turn, in the life of a community […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-policy-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,69,68,56,65,64,70,67,66,63,26],"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-citizenship-education","category-critical-thinking","category-digital-literacy","category-education-for-sustainable-development","category-global-education","category-inclusive-education","category-learner-centred-methodology","category-life-long-learning","category-non-formal-education-nfe","category-quality-education","category-youth-work"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tools.youthforum.org\/policy-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}