TASKs for democracy

Unit 5
What has changed?
Originally submitted by Josef Huber
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE UNIT
Expected outcomes
Target group
Participants will reflect on the learning processes they went through in the recent past with regard
to a given learning objective.
Participants will identify the most significant individual changes with regard to a given learning
objective.
Participants will identify further learning with regard to a given learning objective.
Participants will exchange and analyse changes amongst peers with regard to a given learning objective.
Education
Age/level
Formal/non-formal/informal
all
Summary
Through this activity, the participant will be able to reflect on where s/he stands regarding a particular TASK
for acting as a responsible, active citizen who supports a sustainable democratic society. It will also allow all
the people involved in the learning process to gain a clear picture of the outcome of the learning at a given
moment in time and offer information that will be useful for continuing the learning process effectively.
The activity involves the collection of significant change stories emanating from participants, and the systematic
selection of the most significant of these stories. The kernel of the “most significant change” process is a
question along the lines of: “Looking back over the last month, what do you think was the most significant
change [in a particular domain of change]?” A similar question is posed when the answers to the first question
are examined by another group of participants: “From among all these significant changes, what do you think
was the most significant change of all?”
This process provides a simple means of making sense of a large amount of complex information collected
from many participants across a range of settings.
Time: 5 hours 10 minutes
Introduction
Activity 1
30 minutes
55 minutes
Activity 2
90 minutes
Activity 3
75 minutes
Activity 4
60 minutes
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