Classwork Series and Exercises {Civic Education – SS1}: Youth Empowerment

Civic Education, SS 1, Week 3

Topic: Youth Empowerment

Contents

1. Meaning of Youth Empowerment
2. Youth Empowerment Skill
3. Types of Communication Skill

Meaning of Youth Empowerment

Youth empowerment is the processes of making young people gain the ability, authority and the energy to make decision and implement changes in their own lives and the lives of other people.

Youth Empowerment is an attitudinal, structural, and cultural process whereby young people gain the ability, authority, and agency to make decisions and implement change in their own lives and the lives of other people, including youth and adults.

Youth empowerment deals with provision of enabling environment which will help young people to make important and vital decision of life by themselves, it is a means of encouraging youths to do great things for themselves and also to make great impart in their society

Youth Empowerment involves the following:

• Helping youth maximize and utilize their potential.
• Helping the youth to develop their confidence and self identity
• Encouraging them to grow together in accountability
• Imbibing in them the eagerness to create a change

Youth Empowerment Skill

1. Manipulative skill: It is the ability to manipulate things or object with the help of the body or a body part. E.g. kicking, throwing, bouncing etc.
2. Communicative skill: Communication is the process by which information is exchange between individuals or a group. It is one’s ability to transfer ideas and information to others through with the possible appropriate meaning.
3. Life coping skill: Life coping skills are those skills that we use to offset disadvantages in day to day life. It can be positive and negative. Positive life coping enables us to get through difficult situations while the negative life coping skills may bring about immediate satisfaction but automatically bring will worsen the situation of things later on.

Types of Communication Skill

The types of communication skill are the following

1. Listening skill: Listening skill is the active process of receiving and responding to spoken and sometimes unspoken messages, this is a skill that enables one allow others to express their view about matters one has raised. This is possible by giving the other person attention, listen for understanding and letting the other person know what is said.
2. Expressive skill: These are skills used to convey to another person the information to which one have access, it is a skill used to give others information about their behavior. Expressive skills are done through the following ways: get the persons attention, convey the information to the person and finally check the persons understanding.
3. Managing the overall process: This is a third person skills that help you determine what to work on and what sort of information to exchange.
4. Intellectual skills: These are skills that that are critical, analytical, synthesizing problem-solving capacity. This can be acquired by learning, doing critical thinking and application of basic principles and having structured argument.

Test and Exercise

1. The process of making young people gain the ability , authority and the energy to make decision and implement changes is (a) youth limitation (b) youth empowerment (c) youth displacement (d) youth strike.
2. The skills that involve the ability to do things or handle an object with the appropriate control and speed of movement is (a) life coping skill (b) communication skill (c) manipulative skill (d) all of the above.
3. Youth empowerment involves all of the following except (a) helping youth discover their potentials and ability (b) encouraging the youth to grow together in accountability (c) giving them the impression about the negative effect of their country (d) Teaching them to be productive.
4. The type of communication skill that can be acquired by learning or critical thinking is (a) expressive skills (b) listening skills (c) managing the overall process (d) intellectual skill.
5. Youth empowerment is a tool for a positive change in the society. True/false.

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