Youth Peer to Peer
Youth Peer to Peer was commissioned as one of four case studies looking at models of engagement in education, published as a pack by Creative Partnerships London North as virtually its last act before the national restructure of the whole CP programme. My brief was to look at how one particular school addressed 'youth voice' - and at how young people might work together as a supportive learning community. The project lent itself to easy metaphors, as it involved aerial artists and young people 'learning to fly', but the difficult issues that were raised about achieving a genuinely equal dialogue between adults in power and young students took the study beyond such platitudes. There are packs still around, apparently, but you can download my case study here or the whole range from http://www.anewdirection.org.uk/. A New Direction now runs Creative Partnerships and a number of other programmes in London aimed at developing creative approaches to teaching and learning, building young people's aspirations and connecting them to the city and the opportunities it offers.
