The workshop aims to present and discuss advances in the doctoral thesis “Tão Perto, Tão Longe. O direito à cidade das adolescências ‘periféricas’ em Montevidéu e o papel da política educativa para a sua garantia”. The research analyses how socio-spatial inequalities condition the mobility practices and appropriation of urban space by adolescents living in the outskirts of Montevideo, and examines the role of educational policy in the reproduction or transformation of these conditions.

This session will focus on sharing the methodological and epistemological framework of the study, which is based on a qualitative multi-method approach combining questionnaires, participatory workshops, collective mapping, choral narratives, discussion groups and interviews with key informants. The study is part of an applied research (or action research) approach with a participatory component, which recognises the centrality of the voices of adolescents and teachers and promotes processes of co-creation of knowledge in specific phases: fundamentally in the situated diagnosis and collective elaboration of proposals. The reasons behind the methodological choice will be explored in depth, as well as the ethical, political and practical challenges that arise when investigating urban inequalities from a situated and co-constructed perspective.

The second part of the workshop will be dedicated to a space for exchange, focused on dialogue about experiences and techniques of participatory research with adolescents in educational and community contexts. This moment of dialogue is part of broader concerns with the production of situated knowledge, the participation of children and young people, and critical reflection on the role of education in promoting citizenship, democracy, and social justice in contexts marked by structural inequalities. To open this reflection, the participatory techniques used in research with young people from the outskirts of Montevideo will be briefly presented, linking them with other approaches that value the co-production of knowledge and methodological experimentation as central dimensions of research in education and territory (namely, those adopted within the ATHENE project). The aim is to open a joint reflection on the potential and challenges of these tools for producing critical knowledge, democratising research and generating relevant contributions to the design of public policies that are sensitive to the territory and the right to the city.

Speakers: Sofía Vales Grotiuz (Pablo de Olavide University, Spain, and University of the Republic, Uruguay), Rita Campos (CES), Cláudia Carvalho (CES), Catarina Leitão (CES/FPCEUC)

Link to access online > https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82495146479?pwd=saTZyOSRAWZUYgwAXAUwmAr8eUw6lq.1

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