Investigating the global dimension of development education. A PAR pilot project in a Galician school (II) (2016-2017)

In the second phase of this collaborative action research (PAR) project, we carried out the implementation, data collection, and analysis phases. The application of the Comprehensive Action Plan involved effecting some unforeseen changes to the design, due to teachers' leaving or joining the school staff with the change of academic year.

The designed actions were integrated in the overall project "The cow, for what it is worth"and, for each specific teaching proposal, the following aspects were defined: the activity to be carried out, objectives, content, methodologies, resources,  evaluation processes, any connection with other schoolwide or external initiatives, teachers involved, educational level, topics, and links with the curriculum.  The specific plans had the following names: Plan I: Livestock Farms; Plan II: Milk; Plan III: World and society.  

We took an emic perspective (collecting classroom teacher's own assessments in order to provide insider insight) and an etic perspective (participating and observing practices from the outside). We also analyzed the inter-institutional relationships that were generated throughout the collaboration.