The research group HUM 230, directed by Professor Rafael Ángel Jiménez Gámez, is based in the Faculty of Education Sciences of the University of Cadiz. It has been working for more than 15 years in the field of education from a critical perspective. During the first years of the group's development, their work was closely linked to teacher training from the conceptions of reflective teachers, so that teaching practices, action research or psycho-pedagogical scenarios and models of action were priority areas of attention. Without abandoning these focuses, which are at the heart of the group, the research work that occupies its members today is characterized by its attachment to the signs of identity of inclusive and intercultural education, which investigate cultures, policies and educational and social practices and are incardinated in the development of critical thinking that allows for the full exercise of citizenship in the digital era.
CURRICULUM, DIVERSITY AND CITIZENSHIP
INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION
BORDER STUDIES
TEACHER TRAINING, NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THOSE MARGINALISED BY THE EDUCATION SYSTEM
SCOOL FAILTURE, DROPOUT & DISENGAGEMENT
The group works fundamentally in qualitative research, and within this in the participative or cooperative paradigm, which demands a more active, participative and critical research, substituting the big narratives for the search of a more contextual knowledge, which responds to specific local problems, contributing to the development of a more just society. We understand that research has ethical, social, and political implications, which means that it must be approached as a moral act. It is a community research, committed to the transformation of the community to which we belong, in which all participants generate knowledge.