Informal Education

This might mean... education you get through play, through learning 'life skills' like surviving by yourself or taking responsibility for your own money and choices, through courses like those PGL things everyone gets offered at school where you learn skills and how to work in a team, through afterschool clubs, through well designed areas to hang around and meet people in, through getting experience in a protest or campaign, through looking things up by yourself or talking about them with your mates...

Some useful links:

• The Children's Play Council
• PGL
• Boys and Girls clubs
• Woodcraft
• The Scouts
• The Guides
• Afterschool clubs?
• CABE - An architects firm that has done work on spaces for young people

Young People/Peer Education

The UK Youth Parliament has launched two campaigns - one around Sex and Relationships Education, and one around lowering the voting age to 16 <LINK> - which both involve developing peer education programmes to help them teach other young people about how positive they have found getting involved in politics and tell them about political processes in interesting ways.

STAR offers some great trainings and workshops run by student members for other young people to help them imagine life as a refugee and confront hard questions about how refugees should be dealt with by the Government.

Have you checked out the tools section of this site for some really useful suggestions on how to get involved with teaching things to other young people?

Get informed...

if you want to teach other people about things, you'll need to know about them yourself. Check out the links page for other organisations who might be able to help, and try my information pages for some facts and figures...