About this tool
Be You developed 'Planning for Empowerment: Growing a mentally healthy generation' to guide educators in supporting empowerment for children.
Planning for Empowerment: Growing a mentally healthy generation (2.9 MB, PDF)
In education settings, empowerment is encouraging and supporting children to become competent and capable citizens who can contribute to their world.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child outlines fundamental principles. When embedded in learning environments, these principles support empowerment through:
- Growing positive relationships
- Valuing children as competent learners, decision-makers and active contributors to their everyday world
- Critical reflection resulting in educator intentionality with philosophy, pedagogy, practices, processes and curriculum.
Use this resource to:
- create a shared definition of children’s empowerment
- explore what influences children’s empowerment
- understand the rights of children and embed them in everyday practice
- consider empowerment from a child’s perspective
- explore how Be You and the National Quality Standard can help you plan a whole learning community approach to wellbeing.
You may like to share and talk about this resource with your colleagues.
If you are part of a Be You Learning Community, you can also discuss this resource with your Action Team and Be You Consultant.
