Libro

MEDIA LITERACY AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE
Strategies, Debates and Good Practices
Training experience in ICT: A Strategy for Empowering women
associations in the municipality of Pamplona (Norte de
Santander, Colombia)
Annachiara Del Prete
Department of Pedagogy
Rovira I Virgili University
annachiara.delprete@urv.cat
Colin Calleja
Faculty of Education
University of Malta
colin.calleja@um.edu.mt
Summary
This paper reports on a training/learning experience of a group of women
members in women associations in the municipality of Pamplona, Norte de
Santander, Colombia. This pedagogical experience is, in part, a transfer of a
previous experience of digital literacy project, held in the municipality of
Montsiá, semi-rural county located in the southern part of the autonomous
community in Catalonia, Spain.
The main objectives of this experience were the collective Empowering of
women through the use of ICT and the recovery of historical memory.
To develop the training process the researchers have chosen to use the
feminist participatory action research methodology, IAPF (Feminist participatory
action research methodology). This methodology facilitates the production of
knowledge and generates a set of actions useful to a specific group of
individuals. This empowers participants to use their self-generated knowledge
in the pursuit of learning. Learning defined as the process of taking in the world
around you and making sense of it (Johnston, 2007).
IAP is a process that simultaneously includes training, scientific research and
political action. It also considers critical analysis, diagnosis and practice
situations as sources of knowledge, while allowing the empowerment of people
in society who are actively involved in the research process. IAP involves the
popularization of research techniques, with the dual role of the object, as a
subject and protagonist.
The emphasis of these workshops was on co-inquiry, thus empowering the
women involved to generate their own knowledge through their own
experiences. The impact of experiences (not just reflections) stresses the value
of the feminist perspective of the issues discussed.
Keywords: Empowerment, gender, ICT, life-long learning
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