Team research: strengthening indigenous knowledge from the community and the academy
Currently there are various academic research experiences in indigenous peoples that are located from collaborative perspectives. The objective of this article is to share one of those experiences, in the context of a Zapotec community in the Southern Oaxaca, Mexico, where we do our doctoral theses...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2021 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) |
| Repository: | Revista Articulando e Construindo Saberes (Online) |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistas.ufg.br:article/65695 |
| Online Access: | https://revistas.ufg.br/racs/article/view/65695 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Decolonial methodologies. Dialogue of knowledge. Collaborative approaches. Metodologías decoloniales. Diálogo de saberes. Enfoques colaborativos Metodologias descoloniais. Diálogo do conhecimento. Abordagens colaborativas |
| Summary: | Currently there are various academic research experiences in indigenous peoples that are located from collaborative perspectives. The objective of this article is to share one of those experiences, in the context of a Zapotec community in the Southern Oaxaca, Mexico, where we do our doctoral theses in education and pedagogy. The methodological approach that we use is situated from ethnography, in general, and from educational ethnography in particular. The three theses address educational aspects; two of them in relation to their own educational processes and the other related to school education. We are interested in highlighting how we have articulated our particular projects based on a general project that has to do with the construction and strengthening of indigenous knowledge, where the community itself is the main educational agent. In this sense, it is a research exercise where both community agents and doctoral students come together, in addition to the accompaniment of external researchers interested in the Zapotec region of the Southern. The aforementioned invites us to reflect on the relevance of teamwork from a collaborative perspective, which goes beyond the individualistic and even extractivist perspective associated with traditional research. |
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