Abstract (eng)
Students As Experts 4 Change is an Educational Design, aiming for school students to become change agents, develop their own strategies for having social impact and accompanying them in their journey of becoming though encouraging, empowering and enabling them.
Students are encouraged to view themselves as experts, they co-creatively identify social challenges which are important to them and engage in possibility thinking with a sustainable output: Fostering their ideas they are encouraged to produce their own videos and share them on social media with the aim to influence their peers to change their thinking, attitude and actions.
In a rapidly changing, globalized world we need education that prepares young people for an unknown future through equipping them with the skills, knowledge and mindset they will need to face the major global challenges: Possibility thinking (Craft, 2010) and transformative agency.
In this thesis I want to present the educational design Students As Experts 4 Change, which was developed upon the co-creative theories of Augusto Boal and Anna Craft, to offer an approach to the didactic principle of political education through fostering civic commitment, possibility thinking and self-efficacy.