THE PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH FOR THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONIN GUADALUPE, JIMENEZ MUNICIPALITY

Abstract

The groups formed in participation and committed to social action, configure a cadre capable of making decisions that envision solutions to community problems. Due to this, an investigation was carried out whose purpose was to propose the participatory action research for the community organization in Guadalupe, Municipio Jiménez. The academic support was based on the critical theory of Carr and Kemmis and aspects of action research reviewed by Elliot. The study was framed in the sociocritical paradigm with the use of the Participatory Action Research method. The evidence was gathered through qualitative techniques: participant observation, unstructured interview, and discussion group. The information was analyzed with the Glater model. The findings allowed to recognize that the participants with the community generated in the social actors the need to organize themselves, to change their reality about the woodwork, starting from their resources and from popular knowledge. Knowledge that by means of the research process was being explained, increased and got  structured by the actions of artisans. Situations in which the research team was simply a copartner in the development of a methodology that supports the construction of an action strategy for change.