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.
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 22nd, 2019 Giving free rein of process
In the past weeks, we have carried out filming sessions as part of Laboratori d’identitats project in Pineda de Mar, and Geovivències project from Institut Barri Besòs.
During the shooting we prioritized the learning and knowledge that arises from this working process, on the one hand, learning about themselves, and on the other, learning about their surroundings. Therefore, as mentioned before, we start from a flexible script that can be adapted as the students think necessary.
Those are two different projects, contexts and films, but in both cases we
have used a similar strategy that has contributed to the students’ empowerment. We have given them the reins of the filming process, we have put in their hands both the camera and making decisions about what they want to film and how to do it.
In the case of Laboratori d’identitats project, some of the participants decided to do introspective and reflexive self-portraits. When we had to start filming, we made the decision to leave them completely alone in front of the camera in order to make them feel comfortable and calm when expressing themselves. We decided to give them the camera, so that they film themselves on their own. That is how, individually, each teen filmed what they wanted to tell about themselves: some decided to film only
their voices, and others did it by talking directly to the camera.
The result was incredible! by doing everything by themselves and having the freedom to decide how to show themselves to others, they opened themselves up and explained very intimate and emotional personal stories. This resource allowed them to discover first hand the power of their words to find a place among others, to say this is who I am, these are my dreams, my hopes, and what I don’t like. This way we give them time, intimacy and enough space to express themselves .
Educators talking about the project
Omasa’s Self-portrait
Carline’s Self-portrait
David’s Self-portrait
In the case of Geovivències project, as this deals with field research on their surroundings (the neighborhood), as they acquire knowledge and reflect on the chosen subjects, they have been thinking about new ideas to add to the film.
For example, one group, after seeing that they constantly had doubts about what they wanted to express and that they had different opinions about the topic they were researching, they decided to film themselves discussing because this way all points of view could be reflected.
Having an open script also has its difficulties, since until the very last day of filming we don’t know the definite material that will be available, and therefore, this means to improve and
guide the students to reconsider the final script before and during editing.
