Stories that Move with Pedagogy students at the University of Barcelona: experience and research regarding self-education, coeducation and alter-education

Abstract

This article presents the experience with the implementation of the project Stories that Move (StM) in the Pedagogy degree course of the University of Barcelona (UB) together with the research that was consequently carried out. The aim is to introduce and to explore the tool involved and to collect narrative information in order to assess whether the proposal is ecopedagogical. Students analyse the tool and produce a narrated study. The student narratives are analysed qualitatively with the NVivo program. The analysis shows that StM allows us to work on issues related to self-education, coeducation and alter education. The students’ narratives, the theoretical framework underpinning ecopedagogy and the tool itself aimed to fight discrimination show that work is urgently needed on this matter to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and to train critical, empowered youth committed to society and to the land they live in. According to our results, the narratives show that StM adopts an ecopedagogical approach. The building of educational proposals focused on self-education, co-education and alter education is effective in addressing identity issues and in harmonizing the individual, social and natural dimensions. The limitations on study imposed by the short time available and the structure of higher education are also discussed.