Using Community-Based Participatory Action Research Methods to Remedy and Repair the Education System in Peru

• In Event: Participatory Action Research as Remedy and Repair With/in Indigenous, International, and Educational Communities

Abstract

In this presentation we share the processes of two long-term community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) projects working with Quechua communities in Peru to systematically address longstanding social justice issues in education. The projects, running since 2016 and 2020 respectively, use an iterative, expanding spiral approach to collaboratively understand students’ and parents’ lands, identities, cultures, values, needs, and goals to develop learning materials to create quality, culturally grounded educational materials that honors their ways of being. Relying on a multi-theory, multi-epistemological approach, we discuss the practices and considerations we used, and learned, for forging effective collaborations between community members, educational specialists, and CBPAR researchers, as well as the tensions and issues that have arisen during the project.

Authors

• Joseph Levitan, McGill University

• Andrea Velásquez Butrón, University of Glasgow