This deliberation is oriented on the basis of an interest on researching empowerment as a contemporaneous phenomenon as it has taken an important place in many institutions, it is focused on historically excluded populations, as well as impoverished and feminized ones. This research is specially interested in girls, as researching subjects, and it seeks to know their perspective of empowerment. This, this deliberation’s frame is this category as a process that is constructed and that can be analyzed through the conceptual relationship girl-education-empowerment. Therefore, the context that is here proposed is the experience of the Foundation “Niñas sin miedo”, a non-profit organization that structures a pedagogical proposal with a gender perspective for girl’s empowerment. The paper looks through and conceptualizes de the experience of the girls based on the proposal of the Foundation, which has as its goal the prevention of sexual and gender violence, as well as early pregnancy on girls who live in the 4th Comuna of Soacha – Colombia. The temporality of the research covers the years 2017-2018 and ir proposes an analysis matrix for the empowerment, based on the contributions of fields such as the critical pedagogy and the feminist and gender studies. In this transdisciplinar study, there can be found the necessary dialogs in order to evidence de complexity of the relationship empowerment-education as a phenomenon, and the implications in the political, ethical and methodological orders for it to be proposed as a strategy to work with girls. It is important to understand that there should be a gender perspective in order to establish a significant path for this empowerment proposals. This, assuming at the same time that it is not possible to make a fractioned analysis of the studied reality and instead, it is necessary to understand it according to the conceptual relationship between the mentioned perspectives.
Key words: gilr’s empowerment, girl-education-empowerment, empowerment experiences, empowerment expressions, Foundation Niñas sin miedo, “I can do it”
Citación recomendada (normas APA)
Nicole Lorena Mayorga Molina, "¡Yo sí puedo! Una reflexión sobre el empoderamiento de niñas, desde el contexto de la Fundación Niñas sin miedo (2017-2018)", Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Bogotá:Escuela de Estudio de Género, 2020. Consultado en línea en la Biblioteca Digital de Bogotá (https://www.bibliotecadigitaldebogota.gov.co/resources/3714714/), el día 2025-08-24.
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