Project partners and country level fieldwork

Project partners

The project partners involved in the ACtS project are: The University of Udine, Italy; The University of Oulu Finland; Mapping for Change, University of London, UK.

Field work at country level

Each partner, organised a meeting at country level, where they described the tools, methodologies and/or practices used in order to clarify the procedure in order for other partners to realize the same practice in their different contexts.

Following this, at country level, each partner experimented with the tools and methodologies and provided feedback on their contextual transferability and sustainability. As the project focuses on informal learning, in social housing environments, we proposed the following framework to analyse informal learning in public spaces:

1.Places and gatherings	1. Where is the public place? How is it accessible? For whom?
	2. Who is participating in the situation?
	3. Do participants share any form of belonging or membership?
2. Practices	4. Which are the practices that create the situation and the gathering?
	5. How “everyday” are these practices? Are they accountable for all the participants?
	6. Is there any practice that belongs to other kind of “everyday life”?
3. Power relationships	7. How much contextualised is the situation? Is it rooted in any problem shared by the participants?
	8. Do the participants have different roles? Who does actually decide?
	9. Is there any relationship with institutions? Who handles these relationships?

(D. Zoletto, Dall'intercultura ai contesti eterogenei, Franco Angeli, Milano 2012, p. 115)

The framework allows fro research on informal learning dimensions, taking into consideration three key dimensions in social housing contexts, where heterogeneous groups share the same living spaces:

•         places shared or encountered
•         practices shared
•         power relations

These three dimensions allow researchers and/or social workers and social educators to investigate processes of citizenship informal learning and the related effects in terms of social inclusion and/or exclusion.

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