The educational action research in sexual-affective education: a methodology for social change

Sometimes, research works in social sciences join the transformative practices of the researchers themselves. In doing so, these researchers try to promote social change. This paper is about one of those works. During the realization of my PhD research, on sexual-affective education in two schools in the city of Granada (Spain), and from the sociological view, both the research, and the educational action work that looks for social change, converged to the point that, once we had taken account of the demand that the reality to be investigated was doing, educational action research became the most appropriate methodology in order to research acting on education for social change towards sexual and gender equality. In this paper, I will talk about all this process, which is methodological, systematic, and respectful with the scientific value of research.