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Falcão, Ricardo (2025). Data collection on education and gender: harnessing perceptions and emotions. Marias Meninas project baseline diagnostic in Angola and Mozambique.. Congresso Ibérico de Estudos Africanos 12,.

R. M. Falcão,  "Data collection on education and gender: harnessing perceptions and emotions. Marias Meninas project baseline diagnostic in Angola and Mozambique.", in Congr.o Ibérico de Estudos Africanos 12, Barcelona, 2025

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	author = "Falcão, Ricardo",
	title = "Data collection on education and gender: harnessing perceptions and emotions. Marias Meninas project baseline diagnostic in Angola and Mozambique.",
	year = "2025",
	howpublished = "Outro",
	url = "https://redestudiosafricanos.org/pt-pt/o-congresso/"
}

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TI  - Data collection on education and gender: harnessing perceptions and emotions. Marias Meninas project baseline diagnostic in Angola and Mozambique.
T2  - Congresso Ibérico de Estudos Africanos 12
AU  - Falcão, Ricardo
PY  - 2025
CY  - Barcelona
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AB  - What we call data molds reality into manageable bits of information, to which we
give structure. How we collect that data is what ultimately gives it its particular shape, which
determines how and where we are able to present findings or, in the case of Associação Helpo
project Marias Meninas, to intervene. Making use of a multi-method qualitative approach this project
has gathered different types of data which are intended to be used in experimental out-of-the-box
intervention in the areas of education and gender. If by applying parallel questionnaires in Angola
Namibe’s province and Mozambique Nampula’s province, the project has collected hard data and
perceptions, pertaining to 11 school infrastructures spread across both regions. By applying
audiovisual data collection, using visual anthropology as a method, this project also managed to give
body and substance to emotions, which are also part and parcel of every field experience. By
discussing on camera the experiences of young women and their struggle to refrain from abandoning
school, images and sound allow to uncover very different attitudes and emotions of each actor and
their respective family’s choices. These actors' emotions are elicited by audiovisual material as also
are their geographies. Their grounding on particular systems, on the other hand, is better gathered
through the more generalized perceptions.
This multi-method approach also allows for dimensions such as faith and self-determination to
become relevant. The combination of data on perceptions, which unveiled insecurity, poverty and
cultural references, with audiovisual material, allows for a deeper connection between the design of
the project and the design of new interventions to its beneficiaries. This paper describes this process
and also its flaws aiming to discuss the different contributions each method can give as input to better
tailored responses in the field.
ER  -