Scaffoldings 18: Creativity Skills

18 New Wine in New Wineskins
18.1 Creative Person
Objectives:

To understand the meaning of creativity.

18.2 Test your Creativity
Objectives:

To understand further meaning of creativity.
To test one’s creativity through a simple test.

18.3 Creativity in Problem Solving
Objectives:

To understand the mindset for creativity.
To be able to use creativity in problem solving.

18.4 Six Thinking Hats
Objectives:

To understand the concept of Thinking Hats.
To be able to use different thinking styles.

 

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Scaffoldings 19: Career Skills

19 What Can I DO
19.1 Transferable Skills
Objectives:

To understand the concept of Transferable Skills.
To be able to transfer some skills to working environment.

19.2 What do I want to be?
Objectives:

To understand the meaning of job satisfaction.
To be able to start thinking about a job that will give one satisfaction.

19.3 Making a Decision
Objectives:

To be able to use a method of decision making.
To come up with one’s career objectives.

19.4 Getting Closer – Interview and C.V
Objectives:

To understand the dynamics in an interview.
To be able to write a good CV and face interview.

19.5 Soup for the Soul – Meaning of Work

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Scaffoldings 20: Youth Spirituality

20 Even You Can
20.1 Called to be Perfect
Objectives:

To understand the meaning of being holy.
To understand aspects of youth spirituality.

 
20.2 Celebrating Life in Happiness
Objectives:

To understand the meaning of true happiness and celebration of life.

20.3 Fulfilling Daily Duties
Objectives:

To understand the role of work in daily life.
To be convinced that spirituality is lived out in daily life.

20.4 Accepting Suffering
Objectives:

To understand meaning of union with God in relation to spirituality.

20.5 Union with God
Objectives:

To understand meaning of union with God in relation to spirituality.

20.6 Discovering One’s Calling
Objectives:

To understand the meaning of vocation.
To be able to relate meaning in life to vocation.

20.7 Social-Political Involvement
Objectives:

To understand that true spirituality makes one be part of the society.

20.8 Being Part of the Church
Objectives:

To understand one’s role in the church.
To be able to have a right model of church.

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Capabilities Approach to Youth Rights in East Africa

ChosenLogo_V02ABSTRACT:
Early physical maturity and delayed social maturity, contributed by the Industrial Revolution, make youth a vulnerable group.  Governments, including those of East Africa, attempt to respond to this situation in their National Youth Policies.  However, these policies remain weak and uncommitted to youth rights. Capabilities approach, pioneered by Amartya Sen and developed by Martha Nussbaum, challenges the naivety of debates on human rights, by calling for affirmative action.  In the light of Capabilities approach, this article critically examines the existing National Youth Policies of the three countries of East Africa – Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. It suggests certain elements that need to be added to youth capabilities in the African context.
Find below the electronic version of
Selvam, S.G. (2008). “Capabilities Approach to Youth Rights in East Africa”, International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. […]

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