INFLUENCE OF EDUCATION IN PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEACH

Education in the postmodern era is marked by a need to participate in global, domestic, and municipal dynamics; hence, for this challenge, universities must pose again their academic organization, for instance, improving quality processes and agents of the education field. The concept of Participatory Action Research (PAR), in the former action delimited by Kurt Lewin, referred to a continuous helix process through which facts were examined and problems were conceptualized, relevant actions were elaborated and projected, and finally, a new conceptualization process started. The way in which Lewin conceived this process was still loaded with elitist assumptions and social transformation ideas were imagined through the efficiency of instrumental action (Carr and Kemmis, 1988).