WHAT WILL YOU ACHIEVE
We will collaboratively design and deliver communication and pedagogical experiences which will emphasize and heighten pivotal intersecting and transversal competencies and soft skills such as:
Empathy
Active engagement with others
Capacity to understand multiple perspectives
Critical and systemic thinking
Development of creativity and imagination
Tolerance for ambiguity
Planning and adaptability skills
Persistence
Risk-taking
Active listening
Non-violent communication
“The original and participatory methodologies of Edu-actors place the arts and culture in a wider context of nonviolent communication, creating cultures of peace, and broadening our understanding of forms of knowledge and intervention beyond the purely rational.”
John Clammer, D.Phil. Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Peace Studies. O.P.Jindal Global University (India)
HOW WE DO IT
Facilitating informed, customized, local, co-created, participatory communication and educational processes, applying interpersonal and intercultural skills through mentoring and creative coaching.
Inviting activists, students and communication and educational practitioners to gain mutually relevant experience and tools for engaging in real-world peacebuilding in their local contexts, introducing global understandings of development and peace.
“Edu-actors’ methodologies re-think educational and communicational methodologies in diverse multicultural settings, where the very meaning of peace and development is questioned, and the role of activists, teachers and students in the learning process is revisited along with practitioners engaging in contested spaces.”
Nitin Sawhney, Ph.D. Aalto University (Finland)
WHERE WE WORK
Edu-actors has engaged in global communicational and educational initiatives, exhibitions, and dialogues in collaboration with educators, students, researchers, activists, members of political and social institutions, NGO’s, community leaders, researchers and artists, in Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North Africa, and North America.
“As an educator and artist myself, I am delighted to see how the methodologies of Edu-actors bring emotion, metaphor and expressivity to the educational and activists spaces, legitimating them as essential knowledge, as much as the analytical and quantitative.”
Bahia Shehab. TED Fellow. Artist and Professor of Design. Department of the Arts. American University in Cairo (Egypt)