SDDP with teachers and -training institutes to develop goals and structure for MDG materials to be produced

SDDP Internal Workshop to develop a Common Framework for MDG Report Report Title Internal Workshop to develop a Common Framework for MDG Project TeachMDGs Triggering Question What goals should MDG resources satisfy to meet the requirements of TeachMDGs project? Dates 08 - 11 July 2010 Author(s) Yiannis Laouris Mary Ioannou Editor(s) Yiannis Laouris Statistics Participants=33 Number of ideas=65 Number of Clusters=21 Ideas received Votes=46 Ideas on MAP R=17 Spreathink ST=68% SCI=16.47 Download Download Report

Executive Summary

This paper reports the results of an SDDP workshop organized by Future Worlds Center in an attemp to create a vision map for the development of goals and structure of MDG materials to be produced. The workshop was organized using the structured dialogic design process (SDDP) approach within the context of a rich web-based communication environment. The workshop was facilitated by Yiannis Laouris and Mrs. Mary Ioannou and it was attended by 33 participants from 6 countries.

Generation and Clarification

During the first session of the co-laboratory, the participants engaged in a structured dialogue focusing on the following triggering question:

What goals should MDG resources satisfy to meet the requirements of TeachMDGs project?

The goals were clarified in the plenary session, thus enabling participants o achieve a better understanding of the views of other members of the Consortium as well as to greatly expand their own horizon regarding the breadth and depth of issues which need to be taken into account.

Amend Clusters

In response to the TQ, the 33 participants came up with 65 characteristics, which were categorized in the following clusters:

1. Guidelines for Resources
2. Effecting Attitudinal Change
3. Southern Perspectives
4. Inspiring Tools
5. Data
6. Actions
7. Curriculum
8. Critical Thinking
9. Specific Solutions
10. Educators
11. Not Only Children
12. NGO’s

The descriptors were clustered in an interactive manner, thus providing opportunities for further and deeper clarifications of salient distinctions between separate ideas.

Voting

After having generated, clarified, and clustered the obstacles, each participant chose five factors that they thought were the most important. The voting results were used to select factors for the subsequent structuring phase to identify inter-relations among the generated factors. The votes were widely spread among most of the descriptors.

Influence MAP

Following the voting process, 46 ideas received one or more votes and were structured to create the influence MAP shown below.

Influence tree from the SDDP Internal Workshop to develop a Common Framework for MDG.

According to the participants of this workshop, the descriptors which appear to be the most influential were:

• Descriptor# 50 Integrate MDGs into curricular and educational concepts (like knowledge about social and economic development and development of skills, values and attitudes)
  
• Descriptor#33 Resources that give teachers the tools and methodologies to teach using MDGs
  
• Descriptor#45 School staff should be enabled to apply the developed resources in daily school life
  
• Descriptor#22 To encourage children to think critically about the MDGs
  
• Descriptor#18 MDG resources should focus on global phenomena as those are experienced and witnessed at local level

The highly complex ‘influence map’ consists of four different levels of influence. Descriptors at the bottom are considered to be the most influential. Making progress or achieving results in the bottom descriptors makes it a lot easier to address those that lie higher in the map. In summary, almost all participants approved that the following goals are the most influential and agreed that further actions must address these root causes satisfactorily.

Partners

The coordinating organization of this project is the Future Worlds Center (Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute). The project’s partner organizations are:

• Youth Career and Advising Centre (Lithuania)
  
• C.E.G.A. Foundation
  
• NGO Mondo
  
• Scotdec
  

The associates of the project team are:

• Management Center of the Mediterranean in Cyprus
  
• Vilnius Pedagogical University in Lithuania
  
• Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania
  
• Pedagogical Institute in Cyprus
  
• Cameroonian Diaspora in Cyprus
  
• International Student Association of Cyprus
  
• Mouvement Universel pour la Santé et l’ Education in D.R Congo

Participants

Name	Country
Yordanka Andreeva	Bulgaria
Adriana Baytcheva	Bulgaria
Stanka Samokovska	Bulgaria
Liuba Batembergska	Bulgaria
Rumyan Sechkov	Bulgaria
Marin Ivanov	Bulgaria
Susan McIntosh	Scotland
Isabel Ross	Scotland
Laimute Zukauskiene	Lithuania
Irena Urbstiene	Lithuania
Kerstin Wittig	Cyprus
Nicolina Markidou	Cyprus
Yiannis Laouris	Cyprus
Mary Ioannou	Cyprus
Maria Loizou	Cyprus
Stella Gavriel	Cyprus
Iliana Siaili	Cyprus
Huseyin Yaratan	Cyprus
Nihat Ekizoglu	Cyprus
Ayten Sururi	Cyprus
Mari Kinks	Estonia
Maari Ross	Estonia
Marje Pihlak	Estonia
Kai Kitsing	Estonia
Birgit Tammjõe	Estonia
Paul Senosi	Estonia
Kaarel Haav	Estonia
Erika Sari	Estonia
Charles John Cardoso	Estonia
Arian Sarwiri	Afghanistan
Mohammed Samir	Afghanistan

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