SMAT Research
Description:
Children's future is today. Tomorrow will be too late (Gabriela Mistral)
One of the main premises in the development of research and studies with children and adolescents is to view them as competent, respectful actors from a non-adultcentric position adapted to the particularities of children's experience.
The SMAT technique is a child-friendly version of a SWOT for children and adolescents that answers four axes of analysis and associated questions related to "dreams, fears, joys and sorrows." The play-participatory workshop using the SMAT technique will be the place for children to show their perceptions and feelings in relation to their daily lives and their particular history in relation to their family, their school and their community.
SMAT aims to generate a very thoughtful process of self-expression and child-youth participation that enables children and adolescents to become aware of all the dimensions involved in relation to their daily lives and their particular history in relation to their family, their school and their community.
See the graphical results of the SMAT in the LETS in Bulgaria, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Spain!!!
