Building educational alliances: notes from a Participatory Action Research project with teachers and educators

Abstract

The article reports on the experience of Participatory Action Research being carried out in the context of the Prin RE-SERVES – Research at the service of educational fragilities (2019-2023) that investigates the antisocial behaviors of adolescents through the representations that teachers and educators. The activities are allowing participants to experience the need to enhance the territorial educational alliances, confirming the need for system actions to deal with a phenomenon that requires interventions designed and implemented from the perspective of the educating community. The educational alliance can represent a way of signifying the profession that enhances the intentional tension at the foundation of educational action, reinvigorating the culture of co-responsibility as a condition for inclusive and participatory change.