Action-research in vulnerable groups

Abstract

This document summarizes the results of an action-research developed using the help of educational auditors and vulnerable groups from the municipality of Satevó Chihuahua. This research was carried out with the purpose that these groups, more specifically, women in situations of violence and communities of older adults, could identify their condition of economic, cultural and social vulnerability, hence, through an educational process, they can hierarchize and identify their problems, and their conditions to act on them and truly develop a liberating educational process. The document presents the results obtained in each one of the stages during a two-year period in which the research was developed. The first stage; The previous stage or work team training, provides elements that serve as guidelines for future action-research. Subsequently, showing the results obtained in the thematization stage, where the problems to be addressed are delimited in the next moment - an action that accounts for the planned strategies, which execution is narrated in the stage of pedagogical action and are valued in the final stage, of balance or evaluation. This document contains a series of theoretical and methodological elements for the development of educational research projects that lead to the empowerment of social groups in conditions of vulnerability, so they can transform their reality.