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8 guaranteed ways to burn yourself out as a mentor!

8 guaranteed ways to burn yourself out as a mentor!

INTRO As two experienced mentors, we have been in search of a practical guide to help us fail completely in our work for a long time. Since we haven’t found one yet, in our last European training course we organised a brainstorming session that gave us and the...
Critical Thinking and Media Literacy in Youth Work

Critical Thinking and Media Literacy in Youth Work

1. Introduction We live in the ‘information age’. Our young people are surrounded by information coming from all sorts of directions and wrapped in all sorts of packaging. Every day a young person spends more than a third of their free time consuming,...
Student voices: Fighting to be heard during COVID-19 chaos

Student voices: Fighting to be heard during COVID-19 chaos

“The attitude was, ‘we are going to decide everything and you are not important’,” recalls 18-year-old Maja Kalin. This is the way educational decisions were made in the early days of COVID-19 in her home country of Slovenia. “The government said from the very...