Desarrollando cambios en nuestra lectura del mundo: Una propuesta pedagógica desde la investigación acción participativa
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2017-05-01
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Trovato Apollaro, Simona
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Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica
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El siguiente artículo presenta la investigación que realicé con el grupo Mujeres de Teatro de
Alajuelita que trata de responder a la pregunta: ¿Cómo desarrollar cambios en nuestra lectura del mundo?
El propósito de nuestro estudio se dirige al proceso de toma de conciencia de las coinvestigadoras para
que, a partir de sí mismas y por medio de Mujeres de Teatro, lean, interpreten y reconstruyan su entorno
para provocar transformaciones en sus vidas y su comunidad. A través de la reflexión, el proceso
es investigado sobre la base de las prácticas pedagógicas del Teatro del Oprimido de Boal (1980),
desarrolladas en el taller de teatro en conjunto con las Mujeres de Teatro en la biblioteca del Centro
Educativo Los Pinos de Alajuelita. Los principales elementos de la metodología empleada responden
a la investigación acción participativa (IAP), donde la relación dialéctica participativa y la discusión
colectiva posibilitan la creación de aprendizajes. Utilizamos grabaciones como instrumento para la
recolección de la información que luego se sistematizan para su análisis. La posición paradigmática
asumida se inspira en un enfoque relacionado con el concepto de complejidad, el cual propone una
visión holística de la realidad, de la vida y, por ende, de la pedagogía, por tanto, todas las personas somos
una y la multiplicidad está interconectada con cada una de las partes en continua entropía. Desde este
enfoque, donde el mundo es un “sistema de sistemas” interconectados entre sí, el hallazgo principal es
percibir la pedagogía como un instrumento humanizante, un objeto mágico capaz de hacernos valorar
la diversidad, transformar nuestros pensamientos, estilos de vida, valores y, por ende, nuestra lectura
del mundo. Consideramos que este importante hallazgo puede llevar a desarrollar cambios en los seres
humanos y, en conclusión, inspirar una perspectiva ecológica de las relaciones, la cual podría dar origen
a transformaciones profundas en nuestras estructuras sociales, políticas y económicas.
This paper presents the results of a research conducted with the group Women of Theater from Alajuelita. The research intended to answer the question of how to develop changes in our reading of the world. The goal of our study was the co-researchers’ raising awareness process leading them, from themselves, and by means of the abovementioned group, to read, interpret and reconstruct the environment in order to yield transformations in their lives and community. Through reflection, the process was investigated on the basis of the pedagogical practices of Augusto Boal´s Theater of Oppressed (Boal, 1980), as they were applied at the theater workshop together with the group of Women of Theather, at the library of the Educative Center Los Pinos in Alajuelita. The main elements of the implemented methodology respond to the Participative Action Research (PAR), where the dialectical participative relationship and the collective discussion make it possible the creation of learning. We used audio recordings as data collection tools, which were later systematized for their analysis. The paradigmatic position assumed was inspired by an approach related to the concept of complexity. This concept proposes a holistic view of reality, life, and, so, of pedagogy. According to such a view, we all are one, and the multiplicity is interconnected with each one of its parts, in continuous entropy. Under this approach, where the world is a system of systems interconnected among themselves, the main finding was to perceive pedagogy as an instrument for humanization, a magical object capable of valuing diversity and transforming our thoughts, life styles and values, and, in consequence, our reading of the world. We considered that such an important finding might help to develop changes in human beings and might inspire us to assume an ecological perspective towards relationships. Such a perspective might give rise to deep transformations in our social, political and economic structures.
This paper presents the results of a research conducted with the group Women of Theater from Alajuelita. The research intended to answer the question of how to develop changes in our reading of the world. The goal of our study was the co-researchers’ raising awareness process leading them, from themselves, and by means of the abovementioned group, to read, interpret and reconstruct the environment in order to yield transformations in their lives and community. Through reflection, the process was investigated on the basis of the pedagogical practices of Augusto Boal´s Theater of Oppressed (Boal, 1980), as they were applied at the theater workshop together with the group of Women of Theather, at the library of the Educative Center Los Pinos in Alajuelita. The main elements of the implemented methodology respond to the Participative Action Research (PAR), where the dialectical participative relationship and the collective discussion make it possible the creation of learning. We used audio recordings as data collection tools, which were later systematized for their analysis. The paradigmatic position assumed was inspired by an approach related to the concept of complexity. This concept proposes a holistic view of reality, life, and, so, of pedagogy. According to such a view, we all are one, and the multiplicity is interconnected with each one of its parts, in continuous entropy. Under this approach, where the world is a system of systems interconnected among themselves, the main finding was to perceive pedagogy as an instrument for humanization, a magical object capable of valuing diversity and transforming our thoughts, life styles and values, and, in consequence, our reading of the world. We considered that such an important finding might help to develop changes in human beings and might inspire us to assume an ecological perspective towards relationships. Such a perspective might give rise to deep transformations in our social, political and economic structures.
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PEDAGOGÍA, EDUCACIÓN INCLUSIVA, EDUCACIÓN DE LA MUJER, TEATRO, PARTICIPACIÓN SOCIAL, INVESTIGACIÓN ACCIÓN, PEDAGOGY, INCLUSIVE EDUCATION, WOMEN'S EDUCATION, THEATER, SOCIAL PARTICIPATION, INVESTIGATION ACTION