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Activities, Services, and Materials
Growing Up in Cities has core sites in Australia,
Argentina, England, India, Norway, Poland, South Africa and the United States
that serve as information centers for their regions. Through these sites and
the international coordination provided by UNESCO, cities and towns can draw
upon a number of activities, services, and materials, according to their needs:
- Workshops. Working together, the MOST Programme of UNESCO offers workshops
for municipal officials, architects, planners, researchers, urban professionals,
and other child advocates. The workshops engage participants in defining strategies
for implementing participatory projects in their local context, and provide
practical methods for engaging children and adolescents in evaluating their
local environments; setting priorities for improvements; and developing programs
and designs to put their priorities into action
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Curricula. The project provides formal and non-formal curricula for
community-based learning at professional, undergraduate, secondary, and
middle-school levels. Depending on their age and level of involvement,
participants develop basic skills in communication, data collection and
analysis, art, and design; or professional skills in interdisciplinary,
intersectoral collaboration in research and policy-making to benefit children
and youth.
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Research. Building on the model of Growing Up in Cities, the project provides
action-research methods to better understand children's and adolescents'
perspectives on the places where they live, their concerns related to their
community environment, their proposals for change, and the effects of
participatory processes on those involved. The project offers an international
research network for collaborative, comparative investigations of these
subjects.
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Materials. The project provides a manual of principles and methods entitled
Growing Up in Cities, designed as a training tool and
field guide for people and organizations interested in developing participatory
projects with young people. It also provides a book documenting the initial
case studies, entitled Growing Up in an Urbanizing World illustrating the
project’s concepts in action. Both the manual and the book will be published by
UNESCO and Earthscan at the end of 2000. In addition, national reports, videos,
and exhibits are available from several project sites, including a CD-ROM from
Australia that offers a community-centered approach to the interdisciplinary
training of students in architecture, urban planning, education, social work,
nursing, and police studies with a focus on issues of children and youth. It
also provides a book that illustrates the project's
concepts in action, entitled Growing Up in an Urbanizing World.
- Resources. We can provide resource people, methods, materials, workshops,
and curricula to help you develop participatory projects with young people
and make your community a better place in which to grow up.
If you are interested in receiving more information or discussing how the
program might be applied in your community, or if you wish advance information
on the manual, book and CD Rom please contact:
Growing Up in Cities
Contact:
MOST Programme (Management of Social Transformations)
Sector for Social and Human Sciences
UNESCO
Fax: 33-1-45 68 57 24
ssmost@unesco.org