| | Brief description | Themes
| Format | Appropriate for
|
|---|
Engaging young people with justice and peace
| PowerPoint Presentation about engaging young people with justice and peace
| Faith and justice
| PowerPoint | Teachers, Youth workers
|
|---|
The Wandering oratory
| A resource for sharing the Salesian story.
Six readings to tell some of our Salesian story in a simple but dramatic way.
| Salesian | Word
| Teachers, Youth workers
|
|---|
‘Life Stories’
by Trainees of
Don Bosco
Training Center
Pasil | “Short booklet of "life stories" written by the trainees. The trainees were asked to write a few words about their family background, about their coming to the Don Bosco Training Center, and their
hopes for the future.
| In their own words,
Slums,
The Philippines
| PDF | Secondary,
6th form,
Youth Work
|
|---|
| Praying with Romero | A PowerPoint led prayer based around a picture of Oscar Romero made up of faces of the "disappeared"
| Faith and justice
| PowerPoint
| Secondary,
6th form, Youth Work,
Students
|
|---|
| Justice and Peace Icons | PowerPoint presentation based around icons of Jesus, Mary, Gandhi, Romero and others | Faith and justice | PowerPoint | Secondary,
6th form,
Youth Work |
|---|
Trade Justice poster
| To be displayed where fair trade goods are sold - encouraging people not to just stop there.
| Development Education
| PDF
| Secondary,
6th form,
Youth Work, Students, Volunteers,
Teachers,
Youth workers |
|---|
| Ethical issues around volunteering in developing countries | A short reflection on volunteering in developing countries in light of ethical criticisms
| Volunteering, Development Education, Thinkpieces
| PDF | 6th form,
Youth Work, Voluntary Sector, Students, Volunteers,
Teachers,
Youth workers
|
|---|
| Life in Pasil | A short booklet of poems and stories written by young people from a slum community in the Philippines. | In their own words,
Slums,
The Philippines | PDF
| Primary,
Secondary,
6th form,
Youth Work |
|---|
Why Bother?
| A series of resources developed to help Catholic young adults and young people consider their engagement in the 2010 General Election
| Democracy,
Faith and justice
| Website
| Secondary,
6th form,
Youth work
|
|---|
| Slums presentation | A presentation giving participants an ‘experience’ of slums.
| Slums;
The Philippines
| PowerPoint | Secondary,
6th form,
Youth Work |
|---|
| A pedagogy of the gap year | MSc dissertation considering learning through a volunteer experience
| Volunteering | PDF | Voluntary Sector,
Students,
Volunteers
|
|---|
Is volunteering the new colonialism?
| A presentation investigating the ethics of the volunteer/gap year experience
| Volunteering
| PowerPoint
| 6th form,
Voluntary Sector, Students, Volunteers
|
|---|
| Host Community Perceptions of the Gap Year | MA research proposal exploring perceptions of volunteers
| Volunteering
| PDF | Voluntary Sector, Students, Volunteers
|
|---|
| Volunteer stories | Blogs, emails, photos and videos from BOVA volunteers around the world
| Volunteering | Web page | Secondary,
6th form,
Youth Work, Students |
|---|
| The Pover-tree | A reflection on talking about causes and consequences of poverty with young people
| Development Education | PDF
| Teachers,
Youth workers |
|---|
| The 3 barriers to action | A reflection on bringing young people to action on a justice issue.
| Development Education, Thinkpieces | PDF | Teachers, Youth workers
|
|---|
The chicken or the egg?
| A reflection on what should come first - understanding of issues or taking action?
| Development Education,
Thinkpieces
| PDF | Teachers,
Youth workers |
|---|
Images of the developing world
| A reflection on the risk of using disempowering images of the developing world
| Development Education,
Thinkpieces | PDF
| Volunteers, Teachers,
Youth workers
|
|---|
| Savio Bhavan, Don Bosco Tumku | A film showing a day in a life of the ex-child labourers in a Salesian home in India | India,
Child labourers | Film (Youtube) | Primary,
Secondary,
6th form,
Youth Work
|
|---|
| Action for Justice and Peace: Keeping up the energy | A reflection on keeping going!
| Development Education,
Thinkpieces
| Web page
| Secondary,
6th form,
Youth Work, Voluntary Sector, Students, Volunteers,
Teachers,
Youth workers
|
|---|
| Action for Justice and Peace; what’s it got to do with Christians? | A reflection on Christianity and action for justice
| Faith and justice,
Thinkpieces
| Web page
| Volunteers,
Teachers,
Youth workers |
|---|
A Christian response to climate change
| A reflection on climate change from a Christian perspective
| Faith and justice,
Climate change,
Thinkpieces
| PDF
| 6th form, Students, Volunteers
|
|---|
| An Introduction to Development Education | An essay introducing development education and campaigning | Development Education, Thinkpieces | PDF | Teachers, Youth workers |
|---|
Empowerment
| An essay exploring different concepts of 'empowerment' in development
| Development
| PDF | 6th form, Students, Volunteers
|
|---|
Education in the Philippines
| An essay exploring development issues in the Philippines with respect to education
| Development, The Philippines
| PDF
| 6th form, Students, Volunteers |
|---|
Student campaigning
| An essay exploring students scope for action as campaigners
| Development Education, Volunteers
| PDF
| 6th form, Students, Volunteers |
|---|
Sport and peacebuilding
| An essay exploring the use of sport in peacebuilding
| Development
| PDF
| 6th form, Students, Volunteers |
|---|
Slums - resettlement or upgrade?
| An essay exploring slums and possible development interventions
| Development, Slums
| PDF | 6th form, Students, Volunteers
|
|---|
| Child Sex Tourism in the Philippines | An essay reflecting on the causes and consequences of sex tourism
| The Philippines,
Child Sex Tourism
| PDF
| Volunteers,
Students
|
|---|
HIV/AIDS in Swaziland
| An introduction to the science and justice issues around HIV/AIDS medication
| HIV/AIDS, Swaziland
| PowerPoint
| Students,
6th form
|
|---|