Being the cure – was originally founded to respond to child crime in Delhi, India where it was demonstrated that with education for heroism transformed children’s outlooks and worldviews positively enough to an extent that crime numbers were slashed by 89%.
Today, they would like help investigating the impact of their Saturday School for Heroism – where they teach children about the fundamental tenets of humility, honesty and kindness. This investigation will be conducted through an analysis of survey responses from questionnaires given to students before and after their time at the Saturday school. The comparison of the exit-line vs base-line responses will inform the assessment of the programme’s impact.
This is part of Being The Cure’s broader vision of encouraging educational policy to include character education as part of the national curriculum. Having approached the Department for Education (DfE), a key requirement that is needed to drive policy change is sound evidence-based recommendation, that shows real-world potential and impact – which this research would contribute towards.
Volunteers’ Cuties will include:
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Analyse the data
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Prepare a report of findings outlining identified impact
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Opportunity to engage directly with children to better understand their experience and real-world effect of the programme
Research requires some awareness/understanding of both qualitative and quantitative research due to nature of responses.
Opportunity for training for student-teachers who are interested in being training in delivering character education, to be given training.
Time commitment
Depending on scheduling, this could be completed within 1 week to 1 month.
We are flexible and open to discussing the exact working pattern.
This task involves data analysis and writing the report/findings.