This badge is awarded to youth workers who have reflected on how values influence the formation of attitudes and actions in digital youth work. Through this activity, they explored real-life situations, identified their core values, and examined how value tensions can impact collaboration, behaviour, and learning in digital contexts.
To earn this badge, youth workers needed to:
- Trace the roots of an attitude and connect it to underlying values
- Reflect on a situation involving value tension in a youth work context
- Identify one core value and describe a concrete action to strengthen it in digital youth work practice
Skills and experiences gained
This activity badge is aligned to the following Digital Competences in Youth Work (DYW SNAC) areas:
- Self-reflection and lifelong learning – being aware of one’s own learning process and actively planning and engaging in lifelong and life-wide learning.
- Facilitating inclusion and well-being – promoting well-being, inclusion, and positive interaction in digital youth work settings based on core youth work values.
- Shared guidelines and peer learning – engaging in shared understanding and co-creating value-based approaches with others in digital environments.
- Ethical and values-based digital youth work – acting in accordance with ethical standards and values in all digital youth work practices.
This badge shows the earner’s ability to recognise and reflect on personal and professional values and their role in shaping attitudes in digital youth work. Cities of Learning Network partners value badge earners’ reflections and issue this badge after reviewing the provided evidence.