Educational Resources

Our educational resources are developed as part of bigger projects and edited as a collection of activities and games surrounding a thematic topic related to the aims and principles of IFM-SEI. These resources offer educators - group leaders, peer educators or teachers - lots of easy-to-use activities as well as an introduction to the topic. All publications have two parts - an introduction offering background information, food for thoughts and tips for educators - and an activity part with descriptions of educational methods for different age groups. You can use them in group nights, on seminars and camps, in non-formal and formal education settings.

In IFM-SEI, we wish to fundamentally challenge the ways in which leadership is seen in our societies. Unlike in business or party politics, we do not see that are certain people who are obvious or natural leaders, whose job it is to lead others who are not.

We wish to embody and create in our organisations, communities in which all are able to be empowered to take on leadership roles in different contexts, so that this absolute division between leaders and led is questioned. These are the democratic socialist values that underpin our work, and we view leadership as, more than anything else, producing and reproducing the spaces where this equality can be lived, organised through activities and advocated for beyond our own movements, in wider society.

In this spirit, this toolkit has been created by these young people themselves, in a number of seminars and activities within the project, based on their own experiences, and concrete challenges and practices within their own organisations. It comprises a number of examples of leadership practices, as well as accompanying activities for you to use in your own group meetings, workshops, camps, and other events. There is also a a card game included, to reflect on different leadership qualities.

Read and download the Journey of Youth Leadership Toolkit here and check out the video-documentary of their journey!

The Socialist Education Toolkit (SET) has been developed by the SET taskforce, composed of young educators from IFM-SEI member organisations in Europe and the Middle East. It is based on the input of a wider group of IFM-SEI members who came together for a seminar “Education for Social Change” in the Salvador-Allende Haus in Germany in spring 2022, and on the IFM-SEI resolution on socialist education adopted by the whole global membership at the 2022 IFM-SEI Congress. The toolkit aims to lay the groundwork for socialist education in IFM-SEI.

This toolkit is aimed at group leaders (or helpers, as they are called in many IFM-SEI organisations) who wish to learn more about the foundations and the meaning of socialist education and would like to learn how to apply a socialist education approach in their activities with children and young people.

Read and download the English version of the Social Education Toolkit here.