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SPECIAL ISSUES

In addition of the quarterly issues of the journal, APAC offers special issues to provide additional resources on specific topics.

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Decrypt to better grow: critical thinking education

A special issue produced in partnership with the UCPA and the Scouts and Guides of France, from a conference organized by these two associations.

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Learning in cooperation, cooperative pedagogies

A special edition in Portuguese published in partnership with Professor Matheus BATALHA NERY, from the University of Sergipe, in Brazil.

The convivance

A special issue produced in three languages: French, Spanish and English, in cooperation with the Ginseng Foundation for the Cordoba Forum.

Manage your association

A management manual for association leaders: how to draw up a budget, keep accounts, establish the balance sheet and more...

Collective intelligence

Collective intelligence methods to better take complexity into account, and know how to involve all the actors in the decision process, implementation, and evaluation.

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Strengthen the associative dynamics vol. 1

The first volume of "Renforcer la dynamique associative" aims to help association leaders take a look at the association and the environment in which it operates

Strengthen the associative dynamics vol. 2

The second volume of "Strengthening the associative dynamic" aims to help association leaders evaluate the social utility of the association, conduct a territorial diagnosis, formulate an associative project, and articulate a vision for the future of the association.

Strengthen the associative dynamics vol. 3

The third volume of "Strengthening associative dynamics" explains how to build and implement a multi-year action plan and budget.

Cultivating resilience

This special issue of Approaches to Cooperatives analyses how the pedagogical method of Scouting, in particular, helps strengthen the protective factors that promote youth resilience.

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Skills for life

This special issue offers 24 exercises and group games to help children and young people acquire the skills needed to adopt an adapted and positive behavior in life.

The invisible thought

This publication proposes 25 fun "routines" allowing students to improve their way of reasoning;

The educational role of peers

This publication explains the importance of the peer group for young people and how to use the dynamics of the relationship between peers for educational purposes.

Young people in community development

This publication explains how to consider young people as partners in community development.

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Fight against poverty through the creation of micro-enterprises

This publication offers 15 training modules, experienced in the field, to make young people in difficult situations able to create a micro-enterprise to meet their needs.

Driving change

This publication, illustrated with original drawings, proposes a structured approach allowing the development of a strategy to modify an organization’s culture and make it capable of adapting to change.

Adult education

This publication proposes methods and tools to analyze training needs, build a program from active and cooperative modules and finally evaluate the learning achieved and the impact on the results of the organization.

The open forum

A method of collective intelligence that allows to create a dynamic of reflection and production on complex issues by making work together, in a creative way, both small groups (from 5 participants) and large groups (up to 2000 participants).

USEFUL RESOURCES FOR SCOUT LEADERS

APAC also offers useful resources for Scout leaders,

scouting being a non-formal cooperative pedagogy which is practiced outside the school framework.

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Program renewal and update (PRU)

Designed for national leaders of Scout associations, this publication offers a systematic approach and eleven tools to adapt and develop the Scouting curriculum across different age sections.

The green island

This publication is a novel describing how a national team thinks and acts to recreate the educational program of a scout association in an Eastern European country after the fall of the Soviet regime.

The scout group, local educational community

Key to the development of a scout association, the local group must function as a local educational community associating all leaders in a cooperative approach of reflection and action.

Develop talents

We have often lost sight of the importance of competence certificates for the personal progression of young people. This little booklet opens paths to develop a new patent system designed as an innovative and relevant educational tool.