Abstract

FIGUEROA ROMERO, Dolores  and  BURGUETE CAL Y MAYOR, Araceli. Indigenizing Social Research Methodologies: Training Experience for the Strengthening of Women’s Leadership. CPU-e. Rev. Investig. Educ [online]. 2017, n.25, pp.5-33. ISSN 1870-5308.

Based on an ethnographic description of the approaches, learning processes and final research products of the Diploma for the Strengthening of Women’s Leadership coordinated by the Indigenous Fund’s Intercultural Indigenous University and the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (UII-CIESAS), this essay reflects upon the indigenization of social research and knowledge production designed to meet the cultural and political needs of the indigenous women’s movement in Latin America. Specifically our analysis will focus on showing scenarios of dispute where facilitators and leaders faced the challenge of dismantling the coloniality of the knowledge construction in teaching dynamics and processes of adequacy of research methods. Finally, the students’ own fieldwork experiences show their creativity in adapting and adopting methodologies that allowed them to make visible the political contribution of indigenous women to the local indigenous activism.

Keywords : Diploma; women; intercultural education; leadership; social subjects formation; knowledge production.