Youth researching. A collaborative research experience

Abstract

The project "Youth Researching" consists of the development of training activities in which fundamental notions of social research are approached to be put into practice in a process of inquiry and knowledge production. Its particularity is that the young people integrate the research team together with adults who work in university teaching in Uruguay. It takes up precedents in the region linked to collaborative research with children and young people, especially works focused on educational processes and ethnography with children, adolescents and young people in the Latin American context. This article intends to go deeper into the experience in order to advance in some reflections linked to the theoretical-methodological challenge posed by this line of work as a modality of social research, as well as other considerations that arise from the proposal as a possible strategy that enriches the experience of the young people who participate in it.

Keywords: participatory research - youth - high school education