scholarly journals Digital creativity to transform learning: Empowerment from a com-educational approach

Comunicar ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (69) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iván Sánchez-López ◽  
Mónica Bonilla-del-Río ◽  
Ismar de-Oliveira-Soares
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Student Empowerment ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Educational Perspective ◽  
Prospective Model

Daily media use by an entire generation shows the distance that exists between the reality experienced by young people and the institutions responsible for their education. Formal education is still closely linked to the passive role of literary receivers, ignoring the potential of connected communication for student empowerment. At the same time, there is a growing interest in education from the professional media field. We have called this line of force the com-educational vector. In this study, we aim to describe the potential of a com-educational perspective to favor the empowerment of young people. The implemented methodology combines a chained articulation involving the analysis of multimodal discourse of com-educational platforms with interviews with privileged observers. The results show that the implementation of digital creation can be used for the construction of identity, interaction and socialization of students through emotion, empathy and the capacity for transformation. It enables the establishment of nodes between concepts, relational understanding, meaningful reconstruction and appropriation. It is concluded that, under this proposal, formal education institutions could move from a reactive model to a prospective model, revising the codes of emission and reception, and proposing meanings from creative action and feedback with the community. Los usos mediáticos cotidianos de toda una generación evidencian la distancia que existe entre la realidad que vive la juventud y las instituciones responsables de su formación. La educación formal sigue estrechamente vinculada al rol pasivo de los receptores literarios, obviándose el potencial de la comunicación conectada y la narrativa digital para el empoderamiento del alumnado. Al mismo tiempo, se está produciendo un interés creciente desde el ámbito mediático profesional por la educación. A esta línea de fuerza la hemos denominado vector com-educativo. En esta investigación, tenemos como objetivo describir potencialidades para favorecer el empoderamiento de los jóvenes desde una perspectiva com-educativa. La metodología implementada combina, en una articulación encadenada, el análisis del discurso multimodal de plataformas de carácter com-educativo con entrevistas a observadores privilegiados. En los resultados se explicita que la implementación de la creación digital se puede emplear para la construcción de la identidad, la interacción y la sociabilización del alumnado a través de la emoción, la empatía y la capacidad de transformación. Permite establecer nodos entre conceptos, la comprensión relacional, la reconstrucción significativa y su apropiación. Se concluye que, bajo esta propuesta, las instituciones de educación formal podrían transitar de un modelo reactivo a un modelo prospectivo, revisando los códigos de emisión y recepción, y proponiendo significados desde la acción creativa y la retroalimentación con la comunidad.

Citizenship outside the Classroom

2002 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Penny Harwood ◽  
Caroline Davey
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Research Methodologies ◽  
Good Citizenship ◽  
The One

In the context of an increasingly pluralist and in some ways troubled society, work was undertaken to investigate the role of formal education and non-educational organisations in building good citizenship in girls and young women (9-19 years old). Different stages in the developmental process are identified, and the paper describes a number of ways in which experiential and attitudinal information was obtained from the range of respondents: these included a Citizen's Forum and quantitative omnibus research. Methodologies to involve the young people in focused and relevant debate during the one-day Forum were developed and are discussed.

scholarly journals Street-connectedness and education in Kenya: Experiences of formal schooling as rationale for inclusive pedagogies of practice

Prospects ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 265-280
Author(s):  
Su Lyn Corcoran ◽  
Lillian Aoko Awimbo ◽  
Kelvin Mugwanga ◽  
Irene Atieno Aluoch
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
Formal Schooling ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThis article contributes to the literature on street-connectedness and inclusive education, presenting original research findings from two Kenyan studies. Both studies aim to understand street-connected young people’s experiences of education. The first focused on transitioning from the street into education or training, to explore the challenges of making that transition. The second focused on young people who had lived on the street for extended periods of time and were still there at the time of data generation. Both studies generated significant insight into (a) education as motivating initial migrations to the street, (b) the role of fear, embarrassment, and shame in preventing young people from going (back) into formal education, and (c) how acceptance and support are key to overcoming feelings of not belonging and other challenges when transitioning from the street into school. The article provides empirical evidence that should be considered when planning inclusive education provision for street-connected young people globally.

scholarly journals Non-Formal Education as a Foundation for Active Learning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Alonso Terrazas Marín ◽  
Brenda Linda Alvarado Espinoza
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Young People ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Active Learning Strategies ◽  
World Organization

This chapter will include several examples of how non-formal education serves as a foundation for active learning. It will relate how non-formal education organizations such as the scouting movement through the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), works to engage young people to be developed holistically. It will also mention non-formal active learning strategies and their relation to semiotic and esthetic stimuli. The role of semiotics in non-formal active learning will be exemplified, and the article will mention how self-commitment may be created when using non-formal education and active learning. Finally, it will be discussed how dialogism takes part in this process.

scholarly journals Children and Youth Interest Education Establishment as Non-Formal Educational Environment in Latvia

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 219
Author(s):  
Benita Svareniece ◽  
Irēna Katane
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Total Environment

<p class="Atext"><em>These days sustainability of education becomes more actual the guarantor of which appears to be the availability and multiplicity of education for every human being during the lifetime where the non-formal education takes a significant place. The aim of the article is to update the role of the interest education of children and young people in the context of life-long education when publishing the results of the completed theoretical and empirical research in the sphere of the non-formal education. The empirical research ’Interest education in Latvia and the role of the institutions of interest education’ has been accomplished within the frameworks of the working group of the constructive board of headmasters of the interest educational institutions of Latvia. The results of the survey of the children and young people acknowledge that there is a wide spectrum of motives of choosing the interest education. The choice and popularity of the programmes of the interest education have been defined by several groups of factors. It is important to offer possibilities to attend different interest groups both in the country and in towns thus gaining new out-of –school experience that can further largely result on choosing the career objectives. Both –the researches and the personal experience of the author affirm that the centres of the interest education of the children and youth are the sub-systems of multifunctional environment of the non-formal education in the total environment of the education of Latvia.</em></p>

scholarly journals Transforming the Reading Preferences of Today’s Youth in the Digital Age: Intercultural Dialog

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Olga Shatunova ◽  
Galina Bozhkova ◽  
Bulent Tarman ◽  
Elena Shastina
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
International Study ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Literary Pedagogy

The article deals with the transformation of readers’ preferences and the formation of a “new reader” at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century. In the study, the authors draw attention to the shift in the priority of the format of youth reading in favor of digital, to the loss of the former role of libraries as centers of non-formal education, as well as to the need to provide assistance to children and young people on the part of “teacher of literature”. An international study undertaken in Russia, the U.S., and the Czech Republic touches upon socio-cultural changes that influenced the reading process among the youth of these countries and the particular interest of the analyzed age group in the fantasy genre, which indicates a change in the reading preferences of young people and the need for understanding this process both in theoretical aspects and taking into account the results of empirical research. The authors conclude that it is advisable to determine the scale of values of a modern person by means of literary pedagogy, to bring it to a common denominator in the intercultural space. As the leading genre of revealed reader preferences, fantasy is becoming a multimedia phenomenon and is shifting the age boundaries of potential readers around the world.

scholarly journals Pusat Informasi dan Konseling Remaja: Upaya Perwujudan Pendidikan Nonformal

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-84
Author(s):  
Akhmad Rofiq
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Alternative Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Nonformal Education ◽  
Hiv And Aids ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
Planning Program ◽  
Generation Planning

AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui peran Forum Pusat Informasi dan Konseling Remaja (PIK Remaja) sebagai perwujudan pendidikan nonformal di masyarakat. Berkaca pada maraknya perilaku menyimpang di masa remaja saat ini, berbagai kegiatan yang dilaksanakan dari, oleh dan untuk remaja, Forum PIK Remaja memberikan kesempatan bagi remaja untuk memperoleh pengetahuan, kemampuan dan bekal guna menghadapi tantangan kehidupan saat ini. Forum ini memberikan keleluasaan bagi para remaja untuk dapat belajar mengenai penyalahgunaan Napza, Seksualitas, HIV dan Aids serta Life Skill untuk mencapai tujuan program generasi berencana. Kegiatan yang dilaksanakan menjadi pendidikan alternatif bagi kalangan remaja. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode penelitian kualitatif. Oleh karena itu PIK Remaja dapat menjadi pendidikan alternatif para remaja untuk meningkatkan kapasitas remaja dalam menghadapi tantangan kehidupan saat ini.Kata Kunci: pusat informasi dan konseling remaja, remaja, pendidikan nonformal AbstractThis study aims to determine the role of the Pusat Informasi dan Konseling Remaja (PIK Remaja) as a manifestation of non-formal education in the community. Reflecting on the prevalence of deviant behavior in adolescence at this time, various activities carried out from, by and for adolescents, the PIK Remaja Forum provides opportunities for adolescents to gain knowledge, abilities and provisions to face the challenges of life today. This forum provides flexibility for young people to be able to learn about drug abuse, sexuality, HIV and AIDS and Life Skills to achieve the goals of the generation planning program. The activities carried out become alternative education for young people. The method used in this study is a qualitative research method. Therefore PIK Remaja can be an alternative education for adolescents to increase the capacity of adolescents in facing life's challenges today.Keywords: pusat informasi dan konseling remaja, adolescent, nonformal education

scholarly journals Teaching Commons through the Game of Musical Chairs

2020 ◽  
pp. 595-612
Author(s):  
Alekos Pantazis
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Experiential Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Education Workshop ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Masters Students

In an attempt to reinforce the role of education on the commons, this article proposes the use of non-formal education activities and experiential learning. Exploring new ways to talk to non-expert audiences about the commons, I developed an experiential education workshop called “Musical chairs as a commons” by hacking the classic musical chairs game. I have delivered this workshop to diverse audiences during the last five years, from activists for the commons and NGO members to university masters students and scholars. This article presents the stages, the form, the content and the educational approach of the three-hour workshop and discusses further steps based on participants’ reflections and criticism.

scholarly journals Plugged In

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patti M. Valkenburg ◽  
Jessica T Piotrowski
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Online Advertising ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Media Multitasking ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Digital Gaming ◽  
Parental Concerns

This book is an illuminating study of the complex relationship between children and media in the digital age. Now, as never before, young people are surrounded by media, thanks to the sophistication and portability of the technology that puts it literally in the palms of their hands. Drawing on data and empirical research that cross many fields and continents, this book examines the role of media in the lives of children from birth through adolescence, addressing the complex issues of how media affect the young and what adults can do to encourage responsible use in an age of selfies, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. The book looks at both the sunny and the dark side of media use by today's youth, including why and how their preferences change throughout childhood, whether digital gaming is harmful or helpful, the effects of placing tablets and smartphones in the hands of toddlers, the susceptibility of young people to online advertising, the legitimacy of parental concerns about media multitasking, and more.

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