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Learning and Teaching Framework

Learning and Teaching Framework

To ensure our school travel programs remain aligned with experiential learning and teaching best practices, as well as consistently promoting active citizenship, Infuse Travel has developed our own unique Learning and Teaching Framework.

This framework forms the basis of our program design and learning resources, and has been carefully designed to advance the two core learning priorities of Critical Global Citizenship Education and Education for Sustainable Development.

OUR GLOBAL LEARNING PRIORITIES

Critical Global
Citizenship
Education (cGCE)

Critical Global Citizenship Education involves the examination of local, global and intercultural issues, to understand and appreciate different perspectives and worldviews with consideration of the unequal and unjust power structures that perpetuate disadvantage, discrimination and ecological decline.

cGCE requires the capacity to understand and appreciate different perspectives and worldviews, as well as to establish positive interactions with people of different national, ethnic, religious, social or cultural backgrounds.

Infuse Travel focuses on a critical, rather than normative, approach to global citizenship, whereby questions of power, privilege and disadvantage in the global arena are central to the learning process.

Education for
Sustainable
Development (ESD)

Education for Sustainable Development empowers learners with knowledge, skills, values and attitudes to make informed decisions and take responsible actions for environmental integrity, economic viability and a just society empowering all people for present and future generations. As the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) states, ESD is “about empowering and motivating learners to become active sustainability citizens who are capable of critical thinking and able to participate in shaping a sustainable future.”

Combining these two priorities, Infuse Travel programs cultivate active citizens that are committed to positive social and environmental change at all scales, from the local to the global. We adopt a values-based approach to learning that has a strong focus on socio-emotional development. Our learning and teaching pedagogies seek to shift or advance student behaviours and attitudes to promote active citizenship and encourage a pedagogy of hope where students act in the world to transform oppressive conditions and expand possibilities for justice.

Our 7-Stage Learning and Teaching Framework

All Infuse Travel programs include comprehensive learning activities both pre-departure and post-departure, to complement on the ground activities. We develop these learning materials on a program-by-program basis to ensure they are relevant, aligned with global agendas and provide the most educational value to our school partners.

One of the most unique features of Infuse Travel’s framework is post travel pathways for embedding young people within coalitions for change. Through our 7-stage Learning and Teaching Framework we provide post-programme pathways for our most inspired students to join coalitions of collective action.

1. Identify and build relationships with host/partner communities:

We begin with people rather than projects. We identify host communities and partners that are seeking support to bring about positive change and then determine how we can best facilitate this change.

2. Identify community priorities and track change:

We work with communities and partners to identify their priorities and our contributing role. We then develop a monitoring, evaluation and learning framework to track project impacts against these priorities.

3. Develop learning framework:

Once partners and projects have been identified we develop a learning framework to provide experiential learning and education for equitable and sustainable development.

4. Identify and build relationships with relevant organisations:

To facilitate collective action, we identify and facilitate pathways for student engagement with project-relevant organisations post project delivery.

5. Engage schools and students:

Having established a strong foundation for youth active citizenship, learning, and meaningful service delivery, we engage schools and students in programming.

6. Undertake service and experiential learning activities:

Participating students engage in pre-departure, travel and service, and post-departure experiential learning experiences.

7. Connect young people with relevant organisations/coalitions for change:

Students are provided the opportunity to engage with wider stakeholders to participate in ongoing collective action.

Experiential learning theory
We believe in the transformative power of experiential learning, and it forms the foundation of all Infuse’s educational travel programs.

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