Evaluación participativa del empoderamiento juvenil con grupos de jóvenes. Análisis de casos

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ID19918294
AuthorsXavier Úcar (0000-0003-3678-8277, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona), Anna Planas (Universitat de Girona), Ana Novella (Universitat de Barcelona), María Pilar Rodrigo-Moriche (0000-0002-6513-0899, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), M Pilar Rodrigo Moriche
Year2017
Issue30
Pages67
Publication date2017-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePedagogia Social Revista Interuniversitaria (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1139-1723 • E-ISSN: 1989-9742
PublisherSociedad Iberoamericana de Pedagogia Social (SIPS) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7179/psri_2017.30.05
OpenAlexW2951178294
LanguageES
Citations received4
References cited6

Interpretations made by young people about their own realities are key to understand\n\t\t\t\t their actions and behaviours. Also for adapting to new social dynamics socio-educational\n\t\t\t\t programmes and projects. This article focuses on the analysis of those interpretations.\n\t\t\t\t What do youth understand by youth empowerment? Which specific indicators do\n\t\t\t\t they consider to identify it? In which spaces, moments and processes do they think that it\n\t\t\t\t could happen? In order to respond to these questions, 4 evaluation participatory processes\n\t\t\t\t with 42 young people from 14 to 25 years old in 4 Spanish cities were developed. The\n\t\t\t\t sample that sets the participatory evaluation groups for every case is intentional. This paper\n\t\t\t\t contextualizes cases, presenting the followed methodology in the participatory evaluation’s\n\t\t\t\t development and provides the main findings of each case. The results show that youth from\n\t\t\t\t the analyzed cases consider the empowerment to be related with a personal or group enrichment\n\t\t\t\t or improvement that is normally associated with a personal process, although its\n\t\t\t\t social influence is recognized. The most relevant indicators for youth empowerment are autonomy\n\t\t\t\t and self-esteem. Young people relate youth empowerment to spaces linked to family,\n\t\t\t\t school and friends. The extracurricular space, the street and the associative world appear to\n\t\t\t\t be significant to some of them. Youth empowerment processes have to do with overcoming\n\t\t\t\t experiences that made young people to have a perception of success, to overcome, being\n\t\t\t\t important to someone or eventually, to feel well being. Participatory evaluation has proved\n\t\t\t\t to be a very adequate socio-educational intervention strategy to help participants building\n\t\t\t\t different perspectives on their own lives

Autonomy · Citizen journalism · Empowerment · Pedagogy · Political science · Popular education · Sociology · Youth empowerment · Education and Teacher Training · Education in Rural Contexts · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Sciences and Policies

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