Sus voces cuentan: experiencias de niños y jóvenes pertenecientes a colectivos de educación popular

Abstract

This investigation constitutes an approach to understanding what 11-to-19-year-old children and young people experienced when partaking in popular education collectives. Such experiences were narrated by the subjects themselves who, through their stories, recognized the transformations they went through as they were participating in those projects. The importance of their voices as a fundamental axis in academic research, their agency ability as society members and the role of stories as enabling acts of the subject to narrate and outline himself, are the three pillars of this investigation. The experiences narrated by the populations intervened were analyzed according to Paul Ricoeur’s theory of narrative and Jorge Larrosa’s conception of experience. Lastly, this work recognizes children and young people as critical thinking, transforming, word-bearer subjects, thanks to and because of their ability to tell of different worldviews many times relegated by adult’s voices and looks.