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	2010-03. First workshop Community researchers training
	Introduction Program Speakers Addresses

Introduction

First workshop

Community researchers training

Objectives:

• Presentation of the project to teachers  and students from the Integral Cummunity Development major, who participate in the project: Knowledges and practices in the cultivation of tlacolol and palm wickerwork in five communities from la Montaña in Guerrero.

• Training of students as community researchers

After presenting the project, doubts were cleared and it was presented a calendar with activities to be done in two stages: March-October and November-January.

Activities for training:

1. Acknowledgment of own knowledges, departing from a written or graphic retrieval; what tlacolol is, who participates, how it is sowed, what ritual activities are made. The same applied to palm wickerwork.

2. Description of the practices in three levels

   • Agronomic knowledges

   • History and innovation

   • Each practice singularity, according to territorial community or linguistic community.

   • Rituality

3. Basic conceptions of the project

   • The conception of practice and the levels to be observed in the project

   • Scope of the participative research

   • Strategies to improve the descriptions made by students; aspects to be avoided in the descriptions to be made, how to formulate questions and collect comments

4. Production of written reports and their analyses, re-writing them based on the observations made to each piece of work.

Through the development of the activity, corrections and suggestions were made to improve descriptions and to try to avoid judgments and personal opinions.

Commitments:

• Reports will be improved with the observations made by the participants and will be e-mailed for analysis and discussion.

• As a supplementary material a guide for the descriptions development will be written. E-mail exchange between students and project managers.