A Course on Child Honouring
(Estimated time for the module 20 minutes)
Welcome to the Course on Child Honouring presented by the Raffi Foundation. This online course is self-paced.
This course is sequenced to follow the nine principles of the Covenant for Honouring Children. Each principle is a “module” in the course. Within each module, there are the same lesson pages:
- Introduction (typically a video, sometimes more than one)
- Key Concepts (multi-media files)
- Summary (references and links)
- Take Action
- Action Steps (multi-media files with the ability to either enter your text and copy it to your clipboard or some prepared text that you can copy and paste to get started)
- Change Maker’s Toolkit (some downloads and thoughts on how you can apply your new learning)
- Explore More (suggested books/articles, videos and websites/blogs)
- Survey (a quick survey to give us feedback)
Getting Started Resources
In the 'Explore More' section of each module you'll find lists of external resources that will help in your continued learning of the nine principles. Here are a few of our favourite resources to support changemaking in more detail.
Books & Articles
Switch: How to change things when change is hard - Dan & Chip Heath
Introduction to Sociology - William Little
https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/chapter/chapter21-social-movements-and-social-change/#section21.3.
Social Movements for Good
https://www.leaderstories.org/leadernotes-blog/build-social-movements
10 Ways People Power can Change the World
https://mobilisationlab.org/resources/10-ways-people-power-can-change-the-world/
Power of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_power_of_persuasion#
Videos
How to start a movement:
https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement
Everybody's a changemaker:
https://youtu.be/IrgumFNHzXM
Ashoka - Everyone's a changemaker:
https://youtu.be/cccucbxxVQs
Websites & Blogs
Changemakers
https://www.changemakers.com/
TED Talks to Inspire Changemaking
https://www.socialchangecentral.com/7-ted-talks-to-ignite-your-inner-changemaker/
Crash course on Changemaking
https://www.changemakers.com/DiscoveryFrameworkTool
How can artists lead dramatic social change?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/how-can-artists-lead-dramatic-social-change/
Positive Deviance
https://positivedeviance.org/
Module Content
Getting Started Resources
In the 'Explore More' section of each module you'll find lists of external resources that will help in your continued learning of the nine principles. Here are a few of our favourite resources to support changemaking in more detail.
Books & Articles
Switch: How to change things when change is hard - Dan & Chip Heath
Introduction to Sociology - William Little
https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/chapter/chapter21-social-movements-and-social-change/#section21.3.
Social Movements for Good
https://www.leaderstories.org/leadernotes-blog/build-social-movements
10 Ways People Power can Change the World
https://mobilisationlab.org/resources/10-ways-people-power-can-change-the-world/
Power of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_power_of_persuasion#
Videos
How to start a movement:
https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement
Everybody's a changemaker:
https://youtu.be/IrgumFNHzXM
Ashoka - Everyone's a changemaker:
https://youtu.be/cccucbxxVQs
Websites & Blogs
Changemakers
https://www.changemakers.com/
TED Talks to Inspire Changemaking
https://www.socialchangecentral.com/7-ted-talks-to-ignite-your-inner-changemaker/
Crash course on Changemaking
https://www.changemakers.com/DiscoveryFrameworkTool
How can artists lead dramatic social change?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/how-can-artists-lead-dramatic-social-change/
Positive Deviance
https://positivedeviance.org/
