Pamela Zapata-Sepúlveda

University of Tarapacá | UTA

Como cada año, se realizará la Escuela de verano en metodologías cualitativas para la transformación social en zonas fronterizas en la Universidad de Tarapacá. Es una actividad gratuita de divulgación de investigaciones cualitativas en la que se realizan talleres especializados sobre las metodologías que nos convocan.

Participación en la mesa de política pública: educación intercultural. Con el Director del SLEP (Chinchorro), el Jefe de Unidad Pedagógica de Gestión Educativa Local de Tacna, y el Seremi de Educación.

With love and gratitude, months since we learned of his departure, we meet in Seville to say goodbye and remember our beloved mentor, Professor Norman Denzin. We appreciate the invitation to say goodbye to him in the journal that he created, a space for the dissemination of qualitative research, from where he supported, in an inclusive way, those w...

Advances in the development of the Reinvent Yourself project are presented, the purpose of which is to validate the CCP (Build your Professional Career) model for job improvement in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia in southern Spain. The CCP model is an integrative and inclusive proposal within the framework of professional career development....

Evento académico de formación continua enfocado a los avances de las metodologías cualitativas en el contexto de la macro región centro sur andina y más.

The study analyses the contents alluding to migration, respect for cultural diversity, nationalism and chileanness, in the curriculum of the subjects History, Geography and Social Sciences and Language and Communication/Language and Literature, implemented in urban and rural schools in the tri-border region of Arica and Parinacota (Chile) with the...

Background Identifying the underlying mechanisms through which adverse childhood experiences affect (ACEs) the mental health of adolescents is of paramount importance for disease prevention in later stages of life. Objective The present study examines the relationship between ACEs and psychopathology in adolescents from northern Chile and how atta...

Se analizan contenidos alusivos a migración, respeto hacia la diversidad cultural, nacionalismo y chilenidad en currículos de las asignaturas historia, geografía y ciencias sociales y lenguaje y comunicación/lengua y literatura, implementados en escuelas urbanas y rurales de la región trifronteriza de Arica y Parinacota (norte de Chile) con mayor c...

Este capítulo presenta un análisis reflexivo en materia de género mediante la revisión sistemática con análisis de contenido temático que se realizó entre 2018 y 2021 a los planes y programas y textos de estudio de 6º año de Enseñanza Básica a 4º año de Enseñanza media en las asignaturas de Lenguaje, Comunicación/ Lengua y Literatura, Historia, Geo...

This piece brings together the experiences of four Chilean researchers and one Spanish researcher with different professional backgrounds (psychology, sociology, nursing, and education), who conduct qualitative inquiry from other approaches, moments, and gender-sensitive topics of interest in the border regions of Arica and Parinacota, and Tarapacá...

Este proyecto de investigación pretende responder a un conjunto de interrogantes derivadas de los resultados identificados en el proyecto fondecyt 1201517 en la línea de la carrera académica de las profesoras universitarias. En efecto, el Objetivo general de la investigación es: Describir la percepción del profesorado universitario en la etapa medi...

Qualitative research is a broad and evolving methodological field that encompasses a variety of approaches, as well as multiple perspectives on the nature of the research itself, how reality is understood, how data is generated, and how researchers engage with their research and participants. (1) In this way, it is an approach to understand, descri...

Este editorial presenta el dossier “Los métodos cualitativos para la transformación social, la interculturalidad y la resiliencia”, que reúne trabajos producidos en el marco de la VI Escuela de Verano en Metodologías Cualitativas para la Transformación Social en Zona Fronteriza, realizada el 13 y 14 de enero de 2022 y coordinada por la Escuela de P...

El presente documento tiene por objetivo entregar una serie de recomendaciones al Ministerio de Educación del Gobierno de Chile, en materia de Educación Intercultural en el contexto escolar de la región transfronteriza de Arica y Parinacota. Estas recomendaciones se han formulado a la luz de la evidencia investigativa construida a partir del proyec...

Background: End-stage chronic kidney disease is a severe public health problem due to the poor quality of life of patients on dialysis and the costs associated with renal replacement treatment. Aim: To understand the social representations of kidney disease of people on dialysis. Material and Methods: In a qualitative study under the post-positiv...

This piece reflects on how training in critical qualitative research impacts the academic work and lives of female qualitative researchers. In a higher education system dominated by quantitative logics of productivity and daily life, the possibilities of promotion and permanence in the academy are conditioned. Therefore, we consider necessary to be...

Starting from a critical, provocative, and progressive dialog articulated from different authors concerned about professional development in academia and qualitative and feminist research, while from the experience of field work with a group of academic informants participating in their search, co-performing their voices, in this paper, we reflect...

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Este trabajo entrega elementos de análisis sobre los inmigrantes en el extremo norte de Chile, a partir de los contenidos emitidos por dos diarios de circulación local y publicados entre el 01/04/2012 y el 30/03/2013. Mediante una metodología mixta, predominantemente cualitativa de análisis de contenido temático con el uso del programa QSR-Nvivo12,...

The article analyzes the diachronic presence of nationalist components in the educational system of the northern border of Chile since the installation of the Chilean State in these post-Pacific War territories until current times. From a qualitative perspective, a methodological exercise is presented that includes the use of documentary sources fr...

The formal educational institutions in Chile are governed by centralist policies, which do not consider an intercultural perspective. However, each institution has very distinctive features according to the characteristics of their students and the geographical area in which they are located. Choosing some moments that we consider as epiphanic with...

In this essay, I reflect on the work of publishing contemporary qualitative research articles in academic journals in Spanish that are easily accessible to the communities that are being researched. Specifically, I reflect on the possibilities of doing qualitative research in a “successful” way, meeting the demands of productivity of Chilean univer...

Based on a critical and constructive dialogue that I articulate drawing from different authors concerned about the differentiated value that is given to academic publications at present, I reflect from the standpoint of a particular Latin American context on how we can meet the demands of governments regarding education and science, contributing to...

Chile is today a destination for Latin American and Carib- bean migrants who, as it is currently a global trend, in a con- text of displacement due to political and religious persecutions, wars, natural disasters or poverty, seek to work and improve their lives. However, their reception in this country is com- plex and full of dif culties, since th...

Based on their research experiences, three female Chilean researchers from the capital city and the north of the country reflect on political trauma and violence, poverty and exclusion, and the processes underlying the mobility of Colombian women in Chile’s northern border. In all of these research areas, “the sensitive” not only becomes a research...

I wrote this a year before the current context of feminist student strike in Chile. A year ago, it was a time in which there was silence and fear. I understood the natural tendency of living with the different ways of gender violence that is normalized and taken for granted. In a society which is dominated by male power, and where we could find she...

El objetivo del artículo es identificar las experiencias subjetivas del proceso migratorio de mujeres afrocolombianas y su inserción laboral en territorio chileno. El proceso investigativo se sostiene en un diseño cualitativo con enfoque crítico, en el que se entrevistó a 42 mujeres afrolatinas viviendo en el norte del país. En el análisis de los h...

The objective of the article is to identify subjective experiences about the migratory process of Afro-Colombian women and their labor insertion in Chilean territory. The research process is based on a qualitative design with a critical approach, in which 42 Afro-Latin women living in the north of the country were interviewed. In the analysis of th...

In this chapter, I analyze the interactions between the children of migrants and Chilean children in the schools of the corridor space between Peru, Bolivia and Chile, from the side of my town in northern Chile. During my field work, I wonder how influence and culture are present behind these interactions; how ideas and values of different agents o...

This paper aims to connect the present moment of contemporary Qualitative Inquiry with the Latin American qualitative inquiry audience from an interdisciplinary approach. In order to do so, the main statements that place the QI in present times will be presented, specifically the tradition of interpretative autoethnography understood as a form of c...

In this text I want to reflect about the impact of the process of my Autoethnography performance training from 2011 in my work/research/life with… as a teacher, a researcher and as a woman standing from a contemporary QI conducting research and teaching about the unsaid topics of the new movements of migration of people in the border of northern Ch...

Between 1984-1998, people living in Arica were involuntarily exposed to metalcontaining waste stored in the urban area. The study aims to determine whether children who lived near the waste disposal site during early childhood experienced negative effects on their cognitive development. The cognitive performance was assessed using the Wechsler Inte...

Purpose This paper is a collaborative [auto]ethnography that has emerged from the meeting of four academic researchers working with and from the heart in various Latin American contexts. Design/methodology/approach Our “I’s” have mingled with our very varied participations in different themes, latitudes, and disciplines –health, education and psych...

Through a three words poem I share my constructed color voice developed from looking and sense my I behind the look of worldwide international students in my learning experiences in different international "white" universities. At the same time, embodied my I from my fieldwork with Colombian women refugees or asking for, as Latin American woman liv...

This essay concerns my reflection, thoughts, and feelings from the foundations and movements between my heartfelt autobiographical experiences and the fieldwork with Colombian women refugees or asking for refugee status in the current Chilean society. Inspired from the Three Words Workshop, as Performative Writing of Healing and Resistance, I wish...

This paper arose from our interest in investigating our own teaching practices at three universities in northern Chile. The aim was to generate a deeper understanding of our roles as models for our students and by using the methodology of the heart, we have joined our three voices of Latin American women researchers to describe the interpretative a...

This article introduces the special issue to celebrate the 11th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry at Urbana-Champaign in 2015. The theme of the congress was ‘Constructing a new critical qualitative inquiry’. The best way to introduce this special issue is a quote Norman Denzin used to welcome the ICQI participants to the Congress in 201...

This presentation explains my thoughts, reflections, and feelings about writing interpretive autoethnographic texts in a foreign language. This includes my discovery of myself as a northern Chilean woman who grew up and survived by resisting colonized daily realities. I resisted the oppression and the atrocities that occurred during the Pinochet re...

Actas de Resúmenes ADISP 2015 11 th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Presentación Se presentan aquí los resúmenes presentados en la versión 2015 de Un día en Español y Portugués, grupo de especial interés, adscrito al Congreso Internacional de Investigación Cualitativa. Año a año ADISP se constituye como el referente anual para el encu...

Este trabajo presenta las particularidades de las experiencias migratorias de colombianos y colombianas que viven en la ciudad fronteriza de Arica. Se abordarán sus experiencias de vida, sus motivaciones para venir a Chile, las experiencias de frontera, la llegada al país, el inicio de una nueva vida, y las dificultades y oportunidades percibidas p...

Este trabajo busca reflexionar sobre el acto de escribir [auto]etnografía interpretative en una lengua extranjera, los conflictos a la hora de redactar y dar sentido a palabras que biográfica y emocionalmente se han sentido y se sienten en español, asuntos como escribir en tres palabras, o un párrafo en una oración, traducir según las normas de tex...

This piece concerns the critical voices of 3 women researchers that examine and reflect about the Chilean educational system using the case of color Latin American students, in the context and from a current perspective of their public universities in Chile. Public policies in education, integration and segregation, challenges and current problems...

The book is about exciting ethnographic happenings in the vibrant and growing global interface which includes Australia, New Zealand, and some of the Asian geographical regions, as well as - more broadly - the global South. It explores ethnographic writing as culture(s) (re)produced, positionalities of authors, tensions between authors and others,...

This is a collaborative postdoctoral story. We were visiting scholars at the International Institute of Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our stories are about the bike with the pink tires that we shared to ride around campus. We thought while we rode and reflected upon our different realities in our countries,...

This article arose out of the interests and concerns of a group of Chilean social science researchers (psychology, social work, and philosophy) who wanted to reflect upon and analyze the phenomenon of gender-based domestic violence among urban Aymara women residents in northern Chile in a critical and interdisciplinary manner. After working on two...

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Adults, fourth edition (WAIS-IV) is the gold standard for assessing cognitive abilities in adults from 16:00 to 90:11 years of age. Given the need to adjust this instrument to specific cultural characteristics, its standardization for Chilean population was undertaken. A purposive sample of 887 subjects was used,...

We are three voices at a public university in northern Chile. This essay is about how social science take into account or ignore the current political tension produced by social movements against neoliberalism. We have three stories (student activist, student federation leader, and scholar in motion) that reveal the current state of public educatio...

This essay represents my process of thinking, rethinking, and assessing trauma and loss from my “I” as a woman who grew up during a dictatorship, as a scholar today in a Chilean public university. Feeling and listening is a form of creating knowledge in the process of studying trauma in Chilean former political prisoners of Pinochet’s regime. I sta...

This chapter deals with the problem of gender violence, especially in Chilean Aymara women. The aim of the study is to make a diagnosis of the indices and forms of domestic violence against women on the basis of gender in a sample of Aymara women from the urban area in the Arica and Parinacota Region (Chile). The chapter assumes the definition of i...

This essay seeks to reflect upon, rescue, make sense of, incorporate my “I” in my research experiences with Chilean survivors of political imprisonment. In an attempt to free and recover my “I”—quiet until today—to re-think, remember, and to build while I am standing in the middle of the process, I will tell some “moments” and situations I experien...

We analyze the gender-based violence against women considering the Aymara ethnic ascendance as a casual factor. We applied the spanish version of the Index of Spouse Abuse Scales (ISA) and Woman Abuse Screening Tool (WAST) on 400 women, which currently live in the region of Arica and Parinacota, Chile. The individuals show that non-physical violenc...

IntroductionWe analyze the gender-based violence against women considering the Aymara ethnic ascendance as a casual factor.Material and methodsWe applied the spanish version of the Index of Spouse Abuse Scales (ISA) and Woman Abuse Screening Tool (WAST) on 400 women, which currently live in the region of Arica and Parinacota, Chile.ResultsThe indiv...