Young people investigating in Secondary Education: Alternatives for learning

Abstract

In this paper, we report how five youth groups  (high school students of different schools in Catalonia) carried out collaborative ethnographic researches, alongside with university researchers. Its aim was to explore how and by what literacies youth communicate and learn  inside and outside secondary schools. During this process, they were trained as researchers (they learned to take field notes, made observations inside and outside the school, interviewed themselves, created stories, documented visually...) and, at the end, they presented their  research report in public: at the school and at the university in front of the rest of groups. From  this framework, the approac h of this article focuses on the research and training process of young people, on how the report from the research arose of their authorship, the relationships  experienced, and finally what we, youth and academic, learned through this research process.