collaborative networks

This study examined the lived experiences of teachers handling students with special needs in mainstream classrooms at Holy Cross Colleges, Inc. Pampanga during the 2026–2027 school year. Anchored in Husserlian descriptive phenomenology and informed by Social Cognitive Theory and Social Constructivist Theory, the study described how nine purposively selected teachers experienced, responded to, and made meaning of teaching learners with special needs without specialized preparation. Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews and field notes and analyzed using Colaizzi's method, involving the extraction of significant statements, formulation of meanings, and clustering of themes into a synthesized essential structure. Four themes emerged: Thrown Into Inclusion: Teaching Without a Map, describing participants' unplanned, unsupported entry into inclusive teaching; Reading the Signs: Identifying and Managing Crisis in the Classroom, capturing their reliance on sustained observation and the hidden emotional labor of crisis response; Crafting a Classroom That Fits: Individualized and Relational Pedagogy, describing instructional strategies built through trial and adjustment; and It Takes a School: Collaboration, Gaps, and Shared Responsibility, documenting the collaborative networks and institutional gaps participants navigated. Together, these themes revealed that teaching a student with special needs in a mainstream classroom was experienced as a largely unassisted process of improvisation, sustainable only when a supportive relational and institutional network was present or actively built by the teacher. These findings informed the Teacher Inclusive Practice and Support Framework, proposed as the study's practical output, with implications for classroom practice, institutional policy, and future research on inclusive education.

This study analyzes the experience of the Interinstitutional Specialty Program in Food Sovereignties and Strategic Local Advocacy Management (PIES AGILES) (2021–2023), that facilitated the education and training of close to 300 students from 18 Mexican states. This experience emerged amidst political-institutional disputes and demands from social movements, subsequently joining an academic initiative to develop national specialty programs. The program’s goal was to strengthen community capacities and scale agroecological practices through a participatory educational design. However, it’s necessary to deepen systematic reflections in order to provide feedback and improve the educational process we are driving, with the following research question: How does this educational program contribute to the visibility, emergence, and strengthening of networks aimed at building community capacities and scaling agroecological processes? We adopted a methodology based on the analysis of collaborative networks, drawing on both theoretical foundations and the experience. Our findings indicate that cooperation involving a diverse array of allies, such as social organizations, universities, and research centers, generated multiple connections through heterogeneous learning communities. These learning communities strengthened the educational process, including achievements, reinvention processes, and challenges alike. This approach highlights the visibility of transformative subjects, educational innovation, and agroecological experiences, proposing how situated educational processes can contribute to strengthening collaborative networks and scaling transformative agroecological practices.

این مطالعه به تحلیل تجربه برنامه تخصصی بین‌نهادی در حاکمیت غذایی و مدیریت راهبردی کنشگری محلی (PIES AGILES) (۲۰۲۱–۲۰۲۳) می‌پردازد که آموزش و تربیت نزدیک به ۳۰۰ دانشجو از ۱۸ ایالت مکزیک را تسهیل کرد. این تجربه در میان منازعات سیاسی-نهادی و مطالبات جنبش‌های اجتماعی شکل گرفت و سپس به یک ابتکار دانشگاهی برای توسعه برنامه‌های تخصصی ملی پیوست. هدف این برنامه، تقویت ظرفیت‌های اجتماعی و گسترش شیوه‌های کشاورزی بوم‌شناختی از طریق طراحی آموزشی مشارکتی بود. با این حال، ضروری است که بازاندیشی‌های نظام‌مند عمیق‌تری صورت گیرد تا بازخورد لازم برای بهبود فرایند آموزشی فراهم شود؛ با این پرسش پژوهشی: این برنامه آموزشی چگونه به دیده‌شدن، ظهور و تقویت شبکه‌هایی که با هدف ساخت ظرفیت‌های اجتماعی و گسترش فرایندهای کشاورزی بوم‌شناختی شکل گرفته‌اند، کمک می‌کند؟ ما رویکردی مبتنی بر تحلیل شبکه‌های همکاری اتخاذ کردیم که بر پایه مبانی نظری و تجربه عملی استوار است. یافته‌های ما نشان می‌دهد که همکاری میان طیف متنوعی از هم‌پیمانان، از جمله سازمان‌های اجتماعی، دانشگاه‌ها و مراکز پژوهشی، اتصالات متعددی را از طریق جوامع یادگیری ناهمگون ایجاد کرد. این جوامع یادگیری، فرایند آموزشی را تقویت کردند و شامل دستاوردها، فرایندهای بازآفرینی و چالش‌ها بودند. این رویکرد بر دیده‌شدن فاعلان تحول‌گرا، نوآوری آموزشی و تجارب کشاورزی بوم‌شناختی تأکید دارد و نشان می‌دهد که چگونه فرایندهای آموزشی موقعیت‌مند می‌توانند به تقویت شبکه‌های همکاری و گسترش شیوه‌های تحول‌آفرین کشاورزی بوم‌شناختی کمک کنند.