Experience Systematization. Interview with Óscar Jara Holliday

Abstract

In the preset interview, the salient Peruvian-Costa Rican popular educator and sociologist, Dr. Óscar Jara Holliday, highlights the particularities of experience systematization (ES) as a perspective for social action, the dialogic and the critical reflection of its participants about their lived experiences, as well as its potentialities to approach or solve social, political, economic issues, etc., that involve a specific social group. In Jara Holliday’s words, the ES looks to answer the following questions: “What are we doing? How are we doing it? Why are we doing it? First of all then, experience systematization it’s a process, an approach, and a methodological proposal that participatively sets off from the same subjects that live their very own experiences, which are the protagonist subjects of the systematization. Second, the purpose of systematization it’s not the reconstruction of the lived, but for the illumination of what we want to do”.