CISV as a Non-Formal Educational Youth Exchange Organization Educating for Peace via Experiential Learning

Dorota Kryczałło

doi:10.21697/fp.2025.2.10

Published: 2025-12-30

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2025)

CISV as a Non-Formal Educational Youth Exchange Organization Educating for Peace via Experiential Learning

Dorota Kryczałło

Pedagogical Forum

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https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2025.2.10

Abstract

Children International Summer Villages (CISV) is an independent, non-political, volunteer organization, educating towards global peace and cross-cultural friendship. It holds member associations in over 60 countries all over the world. An important part of CISV is that its exchange programmes were initially constructed by university educators and also nowadays the content of activities relates to the concepts of prominent researchers, for instance John Dewey, David Kolb, Bernice McCarthy, Paulo Freire, Howard Gardner, Charles Wedemeyer, Alvino Fantini, Albert Bandura, Tara Fenwick and others. Well-constructed CISV activities, regularly updated, can be adopted in traditional education, for example embodied in hybrid courses, and even made a compulsory part of school curriculum.

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experiential learning, peace education, volunteer organization, CISV, non-formal education, cross-cultural competence

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Kryczałło, D. (2025). CISV as a Non-Formal Educational Youth Exchange Organization Educating for Peace via Experiential Learning. Pedagogical Forum, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2025.2.10

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