ABSTRACT
The methodology chosen in the context of this research tries to access the nature of the learning experience through the analysis of the training process and the actual biographical nature of that process. It did not aim to 'prove' a relationship between learning effects, participation and attitudes, but attempted to look beneath the surface of those learning processes which occurred during participation. We therefore set out to give young people the space in which they could express their own experience of the particular training in which they were engaged. This approach can be described as a form of action research: the young women and men themselves determined the dynamics of the projects in which they participated and, in this sense, also determined the dynamics of this research. The main intention of the research instruments we used was to give young people the space to express concerns that would not normally be accessible through a more conventional approach.
