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Trainers'
notes
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Using
this module as training material
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| Who
Can Become a Community Activist? |
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every one is potentially a good community mobiliser. Do not assume,
however, that training or education in specific disciplines will automatically
indicate a predisposition to work with communities. A certificate or diploma
in social work, or related subjects, does not ensure a person will be effective
in strengthening low income communities. Engineers, graduates in commerce
or science, persons with only one year of elementary education, have all
become community workers, with good effect. |
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A
much as possible, becoming a community worker should be a self selection
process. If you are training potential mobilisers, you should set up your
programme in such a way as to make it easy for your trainees to choose
either way. This module on getting prepared contains material which
you can use to expose potential mobilisers to the nature of their work,
the personal characteristics they need, and what training they will face.
Use it to create an environment so that they can decide if they should
continue with the training. |
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| The
Elementary Training Material: |
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first five modules on this site, in this training, consist mainly of short
handouts, suitable to use in training workshops, and should be discussed
and digested slowly and in small bites. They are based on the content
of the first handbook, which is presented as a whole elsewhere on this
site (Mobilisers Handbook). They
are broken into short handouts here to be used separately for workshop
discussions. You may advise advanced students to look at the handbook
if they wish to study a longer document that combines all the material.
Later modules contain longer documents with more sophisticated content. |
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Each
handout can be used in a forty minute training session (using the same
name for the session) in an initial workshop. You can use the titles
when you plan your training. Starting with the complete list on the Site
Map, you can list your training sessions in order as they appear in
the first five modules, or rearrange them according you’re your needs
and those of the trainees. |
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You can also copy
each handout, or a selection of them, onto transparencies, and show them
up on a screen, so as to facilitate presentation, discussion, and participation.
It is up to you to decide on how you use the material. We recommend
that each session include as much in the way of "doing"
by the trainees, and only a minimum of lectures and one-way presentations.
You can imagine and invent many activities that trainees can be active
in each session, and you will find it useful to catalogue many of them
and keep notes for using in further training sessions. What works
for you, and how?
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| Related
Documents in other Modules: |
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Two documents that
are in other modules may be useful if you wish to supplement those already
in this one.
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the "Mobilisation Cycle" module, the document
on "Being a Mobiliser" can be very useful
here. It can be broken into two handouts, one listing the personal
characteristics needed, written as a check list the trainee can see and
ask herself or himself if s/he has those personal characteristics.
The other is a simplified list of tasks the mobiliser is expected to do
in the field. Either or both can be used as a handout here in the
"Getting Prepared" session. |
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In
the "Managing Mobilisation" module, the
document "Job Descriptions" provides a
more detailed description of the qualifications needed and the tasks and
responsibilities expected. That module, and "Participatory
Management" both propose that the relationship between manager
and mobiliser should be a partnership, and they should jointly generate
their mobiliser job descriptions. (Unfortunately not every mobiliser
will find herself or himself in a job where her or his supervisor practices
participatory management –– those
two modules promote it). If trainees ask for more details than
in the handouts in "Getting Prepared" then the job description handout
will be appropriate. |
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is a whole module on this site which is dedicated to presenting various
training methods that you can tap when using this material for training.
(Training Methods). When you are setting
up the initial training workshops on topics such as "Getting Prepared,"
browse through the "Training Methods" module for guidance and tips
on how you might set up your training programme. |
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Throughout
this web site and the training programme it contains, the emphasis is on
"learning by doing." We all learn
differently, at different speeds, and more on one medium than another.
In general, however, we can learn more and retain more, especially skills,
by doing something rather than just hearing about it or even by watching
it. |
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| We
encourage you to avoid looking for an othodox method
to training, and use your own intitatieve and creativity to desisgn
your own training, based on the needs and conditions of the trainees and
the local environment. |
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If
you are running a training programme, you are encouraged to write to us
and discuss your observations and ideas. If you have suggestions,
perhaps we can jointly design new material. |
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