Portafolio Digital: una herramienta para fomentar y transformar las prácticas de participación de los niños y las niñas

Abstract

This study focus on generate incentives and transform participative practices using the design of Online Portfolio build jointly by kids and tutors from the Fundación Hogares Club Michín. To do this, we identify the imaginative significance of tutors about the participation and formation level in this particular practice from the perspective of children's rights, and their empowerment to transform realities and its applicability in their own context and interest. Then this allow us to recognize the subjects (children) and to incentive new practices within the collective dynamic "Ojos de Horus", as well as the appropriation of its territory, their argumentative capacity and their hability presenting a colective proposal and managing it as a participation process in the comunity where the portfolio was created. Similarly, this work established two imaginary significances about children participation from the tutors perspective. this research found that even though the power relationship is vertical between children and adults, it could move toward a horizontal relationship considering the promotion of education and that the children can contribute in the transformationof their own environment which give the oportunity to interactions with the adult world. Finally, the instrument opens a discussion about participation and its importance in the society transformation.