Learn to Change promotes learner autonomy in a democratic and safe learning environment, in which trusting relationships are a core feature. Participants are involved in processes of professional and personal development, through the design and implementation of their own projects and we link the learning activities to their everyday practices and work contexts.
Our training approach is based upon key principles drawn from a combination of our experience of working with hundreds of teachers, and our knowledge of research into effective forms of training and education (Huber & Mompoint-Gaillard, 2011).
Our approach to training is based around the central ideas of experience, challenge and reflection. These are interconnected; people need to work from their own experiences or be given new experiences. At the same time these experiences need to be subject to serious reflection and open to challenge. This is achieved through active participation in a cooperative and collaborative learning environment, learning through discovery and experience. If we are serious about wanting to bring about change, participants need to experience different and alternative approaches to education. Thus there are reflective webs of action-observation-debriefing-enquiry. These are intended to deepen learning through internalisation and personalisation.
Our approach means we are centred on the learner, working from their existing attitudes, beliefs, values and practices to move forward. We also recognise that people work in specific contexts, and that attempts to develop new practices have to be sensitive to the individual needs of participants. As such, part of our approach is to empower participants to devise their own solutions to issues, rather than impose new ideas and practices.
In this article we answer some questions regarding the decision to transform Learn to Change from an association to a collective.
In this article, we talk about what we mean by Collective – the new form chosen by L2C – and how you can join it.
Learn to Change’s members held a General Assembly in fall 2022, in which the decision was taken to transform the association into a less formal, and more agile entity. Therefore, we will change status, going from an ‘organization’ to a less formal entity that we name “The collective”
If you feel you are committed to the vision and mission of the association, then your place is here.
We are sure that becoming a member will benefit you in many ways. Read the product description for more details or click sign up now.
