18 LEARNING UNIT 4: COMPETENCES AND TOOLS NEEDED TO DEVELOP MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT OF YOUTHS AND TO MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN As it was presented above there are some key elements that constitute the major factors that lead to the cultivation of active citizenship competence to youths. First of all, the youths need to feel engaged towards their community and the social mission by participating actively in the activities that taking place within its framework. But for this to happen, the youths need to be able to realize what the problem is analyzing each and every component and/or factor that affect it. In order to be able to proceed with such an analysis, the youths need to cultivate their systemic thinking skills. Can you describe in your own words what the process of systemic thinking entails? More specifically, “Systemic Thinking” refers to a comprehensive analytical approach to understanding how different elements interact within a system or structure (indeed, nd). As a starting line considers that by researching/ analyzing a part of the system certainly could not provide you with valuable results since this part does not work autonomously. On the contrary, it is affected by the other parts of the system that interact with each other developing the system as a whole. Source: https://aventislearning.com/what-is-systems-thinking/
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