Educational evaluation in the Mapuce context

Educational evaluation in the Mapuce context

The issue of educational evaluation in Chile is a sensitive one for all indigenous peoples, due largely to the technical and qualificative conception of it, which has no correspondence with the indigenous worldview. Therefore, this essay presents a participatory research experience that began in 2016 and involved forming a research community with a Mapuce . . .

Temuco, CL
Climate Action is My Calling

Climate Action is My Calling

How I got involved in the climate movement and why. There is this idea that when you retire from the work world you will take a break – travel, take up artistic endeavors, take classes or just “veg out” and do nothing. Yet there are other people who use the additional time to get involved with a cause or a volunteer effort. A few years after I retired I was looking for some way to get involved using my skills and to keep . . .

San Diego, CA, US
Phenomenological Leadership in Participatory Democracy

Phenomenological Leadership in Participatory Democracy

By Alfonso Barreto; George Davy Vera

The main research goal was to study some leaders’ experience in their struggle to implement and exercise the participatory democratic model in Venezuela according to Constitutional requirements. The focus of the research endeavor was twofold: (a) to enhance the Political Science body of knowledge to better understand how this particular Latin American democratic . . .

Maracaibo, VE
COVID-19 and Young People: Impact and Solutions

COVID-19 and Young People: Impact and Solutions

By PRIA Youth (Participatory Research In Asia)

In response to the crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic across the world and its growing impact on the youth population in India, PRIA Youth hosted a webinar on 2nd May 2020. The webinar addressed the following questions: (1) How are young people across India being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic? (2) How are young . . .

New Delhi, IN