2021/01/05 by Lucelly Paredes-Mendez, Ingrid Alexandra Troncoso-Rodriguez, Sandra Patricia Lastra-Ramírez · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Indigenous and Place-Based Education #Global Education and Multiculturalism #Education in Rural Contexts
paper · pdf · doi:10.15446/profile.v23n1.85984
openalex publication_date 2021/01/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
This article reports on an action research study about the exploration of local communities to enact agency and value rural identity. Thirty-three students from a rural public school in Colombia participated in the study. Our aim was to examine ways in which students enacted agency as a result of participating in local community inquiry to realize the predominant value of their identity as farmers. Data were gathered through a focus group, interviews, students’ artifacts, and teacher journals. Results showed that when communities are linked with classroom practices and foreign language learning, English becomes a vehicle to explore their places, who they are as members of the community, and how to promote decision making to help others.