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Adaptive Methods

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Methodological features and a “menu” of tools are explored concerning the cyclical and adaptive approach of participatory research, which relates to understanding structural peculiarities and possibilities. Shedding light on an ongoing process with a myriad of outcomes and feedbacks, the combining of consecutive participatory tools, or the execution of research by collaboration with nonacademic, grow successively, strengthening dialogical interactions, empowerment, and social learning. This text also remarks possibilities to go beyond the dogmatic concern on replicability, typical of conventional scientific approaches. Accordingly, it opens an opportunity to integrate uncertainties in the process of interaction among different social actors, as well as the evolving intersubjectivity enables a worth and distinct production of qualitative information and a distinct sort of meta-information. Participatory research processes are interpreted as systems of interactions with self-organizing capabilities, represented by procedures and dynamics, which perform products inherent to the evolution of integrated actions and interactions.

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    Following Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Freire 2000), the term “subject” represents those who know and act, and it is in contrast to an “object,” where once in the banking concept of education educators deliver knowledge to students. The freirian pedagogy is applied here conceiving the relationships among researchers and subjects, because the proposal is a process of collaborative learning, then, both actors research and learn at the same time. And the subjects are recognized for the emancipatory view in which they can transform their world, and doing so toward new possibilities of richer life experiences, individually and collectively.

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Giatti, L.L. (2019). Adaptive Methods. In: Participatory Research in the Post-Normal Age. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27924-0_4

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