Alternativas Económicas also wants to be present in the institutes to contribute to the promotion of a critical and rigorous spirit in matters related to the economy, starting from the Secondary courses. To this end, it has partnered with Junior Report, the reference digital publication aimed at young people from high schools throughout Spain and Andorra, to jointly develop a didactic unit on Economics especially designed for young people from 12 to 18 years of age.
This initiative has been possible thanks to Impulsemos lo que haces, a Barcelona City Council program to reinforce social economy initiatives attached to the territory. The focus will be on the institutes of Barcelona, ??where Junior Report has its largest implementation, and includes the sending of magazines as didactic material.
This action connects with the origin in France of Alternatives économiques, sister publication and partner of Alternativas Económicas, which more than four decades ago was born with a strong focus on the training of high school students.
Junior Report is a digital newspaper born in 2017 with the purpose of informing young readers about the big current issues, providing them with context and stimulating their critical spirit. Under the impetus of the journalist Francesc Castanyer, partner-collaborator in turn of Alternativas Económicas, the initiative has been growing with complementary ways that have already made it a reference in the classroom: through the monographic didactic units -there are already more than 40 – and the Revista Escolar Digital (RED), a network of school newspapers written and directed by students with the mentoring of professional journalists that involves a hundred centers in Spain and Andorra with a total of 5,000 Primary, Secondary and Baccalaureate students. . Junior Report’s global community now exceeds 25,000 people.
The didactic unit on Economics in which Alternativas Económicas will participate tries to break down elementary concepts to understand the functioning of the economy and its challenges, with an informative vocation and with a rigorous, but also critical look at the publication. The thematic focus is very varied, within the bird’s eye view that this first unit intends to be: how money or the stock market works, how wealth is measured (of people and countries), what are the effects of inequality economic and also gender, how the economy is organized and how it could be organized, how the climate emergency situation affects it, etc.
The writing of the Junior Report and Alternativas Económicas and also collaborators of the magazine such as the former director of the newspaper El País Joaquín Estefanía, the feminist economist Carmen Castro, the economist and financial consultant Alejandro Inurrieta, and José Ramón Paramio Pintado, secondary school economics teacher linked to the critical group Los Econoplastas.
For more information, contact Junior Report via email: junior-report@blueglobe.media
