Canaan General Aim:

Canaan Institute of New Pedagogy was established to contribute to social, cultural and educational development in Palestine, and to encourage new pedagogical trends that would facilitate effective social work by running a variety of formal and informal training programs and activities in order to enhance the quality of education and the proficiency level of social actors.

The main goals:

1.     Encouraging the social actors "individuals and organizations" to exchange experiences and develop their abilities to address the Palestinian community needs.   

2.     Publicizing the principles of The New Pedagogy and encouraging the implementation of such trends.

3.     Organizing vocational training programs to qualify animators in social, education and cultural work, depending on implementation of active learning techniques during the training process in alternation with field practice.

4.     Organizing training programs for animators engaged in voluntary work.

5.     Promoting social work in Palestine by operating a network for reciprocal contacts among those interested in issues and problems of social work, and providing them with a resource to facilitate their tasks and promote collective work among them.

6.     Developing communication tools to facilitate the social actors' collective thinking, such as: workshops, meetings, debates, producing educational issues to help exchanging ideas and developing successful experiences.

The Target Group:

·        Workers in the social, educational, and cultural organizations from directors and animators

·        Employees in the formal and non formal education sector "teachers, volunteers and professionals"

·        Activists working with children, youth, women, and handicapped in Ministries, Municipalities, NGOs and Youth Unions.

·        Children, women and youth

Canaan Training Philosophy:

The training we propose is part of a professional training for adults, and is based on a strategy that insures complementarity between training requirements and field actions development.

It is a developmental process based on the active participation of the trainees and the implementation of active learning techniques in training during work in alternation with field practice.