... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Youth Qualitative research Empowerment Socio-educational action Youth policies Observational methodology has been consolidated as a scientific method in recent decades, incorporating procedural developments with great rigour...

... with opportunities for youth empowerment, and the authors observe the need for more transversal and less welfare-based social and youth policies that generate empowerment instead of dependency. Social implications This methodology evidenced the environmental structures of educators and the dissimilar levels...