¿Por qué partir de la investigación acción participativa para transformar la educación?: Un análisis desde la propuesta de Fe y Alegría Ecuador

This article focuses on the importance of Participatory Action Research (PAR) in the educational sphere and its convergence with Popular Education, while both pursue social transformation from the development of a criticai consciousness. lt proposes a way of conceiving research committed to social change and, consequently, those who assume the challenge of adopting it are called to action. This is how PAR constantly brings the challenge of demystifying the assumption that it is not possible to upset formal education as it has been conceived. From the process undertaken by the Training and Research Center (TRC) of Fe y Alegria Ecuador, we seek to give an insight on a possible way to provoke in educators their wish to be assumed as committed agents to reinvent creatively and critically the educational process.