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Climb up wherever you are. Your path is like a scrapbook, a handful of pages to revisit, decisions made, inadvertent high scores and lucky mistakes. What factors have brought you to where you are?

Orbital Logbooks allows you to browse through a collage of impressions that ten professionals from the field of education have collected over the course of a year in their field journals.

The journey is an infinite, circular itinerary, which we encourage you to follow as you like so that you lose yourself in the different stages that make up the landscape of empowerment.

Orbital logbooks
Empowerment is a continuous, infinite journey. The circle you will see next aims to be its representation. In it are situated, in the form of coloured circumferences, the different stages of the empowerment process that ten professionals in the field of education have defined with their thoughts and reflections. By selecting them, you will be able to see what stage they refer to and you will discover the materials made to describe it.

The different colours correspond to three types of resources:
The green circumferences contain pages from field journals.
The orange ones, audio-visual pieces on specific topics, recorded by the educators themselves.
The yellow ones contain fragments of four focus groups where participants shared experiences.

Through these materials, you will be able to delve into the meaning of a term as abstract and multifaceted as that of youth empowerment; circulating through its stages, from prior reflection to the evaluation of the results obtained.

In the menu on the top right, you can learn more about the project and also access an archive of the materials, where you can filter them by specific concepts and interests.
This page has been elaborated following the recommendations of the use of non-sexist language. Therefore, as far as possible, we have used generic expressions that include gender diversity.
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“We’re Carme, David and Matilde. We’re part of Teleduca education and communication, an interdisciplinary team of professionals specialized in educommunication in community dynamization in Barcelona. Our work focuses on favouring situations of self-expression and meeting places, where young people take a leading role in participatory audio-visual creation processes.

We provide socio-educational and cultural support to young people of all ages and in very different situations. We act in formal and non-formal educational contexts and informal ones, and we even aim at recombining them. We encourage dialogue and the interrelation of young people with neighbours: the elderly, women's groups, local organizations, always with the idea of bringing the community together, addressing the feeling of belonging and establishing links with the immediate environment.”

February 8th, 2019

 

         Going back to the Geovivències project, during these last few weeks we have started working with two new groups of students in 10th grade, whom we will create reflection videos around different topics related to the subject of Culture, values and the knowledge of the problems of their surroundings. We have carried out two script and three filming sessions.

The methodology for the script sessions was based on different dynamics with which we want to promote the emergence of concerns, sharing their ideas and listening to their classmates’. We prioritize communication, and we encourage self-expression.

We started from presenting three core subjects that they have already worked with their teacher, so that they decide together about what subject they want to go in depth, and what they would like to know and say.

We did a dynamic of brainstorming, so that each teen could express themselves, and after listening to the proposals, in small groups they decided the subject of each audiovisual piece. In total, they are making three. 

To sum up what they were interested in and how to do this, we did a dynamic of working in groups, so that all voices and ideas could be reflected in the final script. First we divided the class in pairs, so that each teen could explain to their partner his/her idea or to think together in ideas to finish the script.

 

To one pair, two more students (who had done the same work of consensus) joint. The four of them thought of a proposal together, based on all shared ideas. To wrap up, each group exposed their proposals, and the script was created collaboratively, based on the two final proposals.

We define ourselves through this type of 

dynamics because we think it is fundamental that all voices are heard, and that each student can express their ideas. This way the students can make the final script their own, and they can understand that, by thinking about it and creating it from their own point of view, this ends up becoming a quite flexible tool, that allows change and experimentation. Therefore, they are aware that they can modify it, if necessary, as research on the topic chosen progresses.

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