CURRENT EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
Training Teachers to Train Children in Social Research Methods: Developing Young Researchers
The Center for the Study of Childhood and Adolescence in partnership with KTÖS, the Cyprus Turkish Teachers' Trade Union, is currently carrying out a bi-communal educational project entitled: ‘Training Teachers to Train Children in Social Research Methods: Developing Young Researchers’. The project is funded by UNDP-Act. Its aim is to bring together teachers from all the communities of the island and to train them on issues related to the participation of children in social research as researchers. A team of scholars, from both the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities, with expertise in social research methods, has been appointed to act as the programme’s trainers. The programme also appointed an international expert in the field of involving children in social research, Dr. Mary Kellett from the Open University in the United Kingdom, who is in consultation with the training team. The idea behind the programme is to encourage and involve children in research as researchers and hence in the production of knowledge transforming in this way children from passive to active learners. The programme brings children closer to the social realities and problems that surround them, encourages them to develop research skills and seeks to turn them from uninvolved to involved citizens with agendas for action and transformation.
