Evaluación participativa del empoderamiento juvenil con grupos de jóvenes: análisis de casos = Participatory evaluation of youth empowerment in youth groups: cases analysis = Avaliação participativa da capacitação juvenil com grupos de jovens: análises de casos
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Interpretations made by young people about their own realities are key to understand
their actions and behaviours. Also for adapting to new social dynamics socio-educational
programmes and projects. This article focuses on the analysis of those interpretations.
What do youth understand by youth empowerment? Which specific indicators do
they consider to identify it? In which spaces, moments and processes do they think that it
could happen? In order to respond to these questions, 4 evaluation participatory processes
with 42 young people from 14 to 25 years old in 4 Spanish cities were developed. The
sample that sets the participatory evaluation groups for every case is intentional. This paper
contextualizes cases, presenting the followed methodology in the participatory evaluation’s
development and provides the main findings of each case. The results show that youth from
the analyzed cases consider the empowerment to be related with a personal or group enrichment
or improvement that is normally associated with a personal process, although its
social influence is recognized. The most relevant indicators for youth empowerment are autonomy
and self-esteem. Young people relate youth empowerment to spaces linked to family,
school and friends. The extracurricular space, the street and the associative world appear to
be significant to some of them. Youth empowerment processes have to do with overcoming
experiences that made young people to have a perception of success, to overcome, being
important to someone or eventually, to feel well being. Participatory evaluation has proved
to be a very adequate socio-educational intervention strategy to help participants building
different perspectives on their own lives
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