Contributions to Action Research for Transformation: Elderly-Teachers and Resistance Against the Systematic Territorial Dispossession

This article examines how elderly people living in poverty established an active space for ancestral territorial management called Wiñenani-Pikenani Intergenerational School. 16 elders waorani of Ecuador acted as mentors of their kids. This school arises from critical social work to transfer importa...

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Published in:Journal of poverty 2024-09, Vol.28 (6), p.455-472
Main Authors: Orozco, Gabriela Estefania Duque, Quillupangui, Paulina Elizabeth Oña, Villagómez, Marco Arturo Valladares, Enomenga, Alberto Muipa Boyotai
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Action research
Action research for transformation
critical social work
elderly
Intergenerational relationships
Older people
participatory action research
Poverty
Qualitative research
Resistance
resistance to systematic dispossession
Social work
Teachers
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Summary:This article examines how elderly people living in poverty established an active space for ancestral territorial management called Wiñenani-Pikenani Intergenerational School. 16 elders waorani of Ecuador acted as mentors of their kids. This school arises from critical social work to transfer important knowledge to live successfully in a biodiverse environment. The intergenerational learning as resistance to an extractive economy that systematically impoverishes and dispossesses them. The qualitative methodological contributions to learning by doing were: Ludic-Intergenerational Workshops, Daily Coexistence Space, and Knowledge Dialogue Meetings community-university. Concluding that participatory approaches must be continually rethought to include invisible people in circumstances of poverty.
ISSN:1087-5549
1540-7608
DOI:10.1080/10875549.2023.2235340