Our project is aimed at forming attitudes of young people through using larps as educational methods. Together with our partners from the Czech Republic and Estonia, we identified the following problems of young people: a shift towards extremism, a low degree of tolerance to differences, an inability to look at the situation through the eyes of the others, lack of critical thinking, inability to see and bear the consequences of their acts and insufficient impact of the activities of schools and youth organizations on young people's attitudes formation. Solving these needs needs to be much more complex and must involve not only non-formal education systems but also formal education so that the thinking of young people is gradually shaped and changed more than now. The main objective of the project is to form the attitudes of young people, especially in the field of tolerance to differences and in the decision-making on important issues of their lives and bearing the consequences of their decisions, through using larps as educational method. Larp is a specific type of role-based game. Larp allows players to experience deep emotions and to open up a variety of themes and to perceive them from the safety of their role from which they will come out at the end of the game. Due to the time limit of the game, the actions are reflected immediately and there is a clear link between them. This leads to awareness of the consequences and confrontation, how we experience similar situations in our ordinary life. At the same time, it has a major impact on the formation of young people's attitudes. In the project, we will create the following outputs: Methodology of measurement of young people attitudes - in the project, we will create questionnaires in order to be able to measure the entry and exit levels of the participants regarding their attitudes. Training programs using larp - as part of this output, we will create eight educational programs using larps with current themes of our societies as well as current topics addressed by young people in our countries. Larps will be based on needs defined by us, and we will focus thematically on four different themes: decisions, consequences, differences, ideologies that lead to extremism. We will also test these pilot programs and develop a complete methodology for them. Methodology Forming attitudes of young people in non-formal and formal education - The first part of the methodology will focus on the definition of attitudes as well as the methods of their development and work with the experience as the most effective way of influencing the attitudes of young people. Another part will deal with larps as a method of learning. The last part of the methodology will focus on the follow-up activities that has larger impact on forming attitudes. The project will have an impact on both non-formal and formal education.
Our project was focused on forming the attitudes of young people through using larps as an educational method. Together with partners from the Czech Republic and Estonia, we have identified the following problems in today's young people: inclination to extremism, low tolerance for differences, inability to stand out and look at the situation from others point of view, lack of critical thinking, inability to see and bear the consequences of their decisions and the insufficient impact of the activities of schools and youth organizations on forming young people's attitudes. Addressing these needs must be much more comprehensive and must include not only non-formal education systems but also formal education, so that young people's thinking is gradually formed and changed to a greater extent than nowadays. The main objective of the project was to form the attitudes of young people through using larps as an educational method, especially in the field of tolerance for differences and in decision-making processes on important issues of their lives and bearing the consequences of their decisions. Larp is a specific type of role-based game. Larp allows players to experience deep emotions and open up a variety of topics and perceive them from the safety of their role, from which they will emerge at the end of the game. Due to the length of the game, the actions are reflected immediately and there is a clear connection between them. This leads to an awareness of the consequences and a confrontation of how we experience similar situations in our daily lives. At the same time, it has a great impact on forming young people's attitudes. We created the following outputs in the project: Methodology for measuring young people's attitudes - within the project we created questionnaires to be able to measure the entry and exit level of participants regarding their attitudes. A special online application Bethy was also programmed for these questionnaires, which evaluates the results of these questionnaires. Educational programs using larps - within this output we have created as the main output eight educational programs using larps with current topics of the situation in our societies as well as with current topics addressed by young people in our countries. The larps are based on our defined needs and we focused thematically on several different areas: decision-making, consequences, differences, ideologies that lead to extremism, addiction. We also pilot-tested these programs and developed a complete methodology for them. Methodology of forming the attitudes of young people in non-formal and formal education. The methodology was programmed with the portal www.larxperience.com, where those interested in this method will find all the necessary information, including materials for larp games. The first part of the methodology is devoted to the definition of attitudes, as well as methods of their development and to work with experience as the most effective form of influencing the attitudes of young people. The next part deals with larps as a method of education. The project had an impact on both non-formal and formal education.