2025-04-142025-04-140000http://192.9.200.215:4000/handle/123456789/366Participatory research aids movements that challenge social inequality and exploitation, aiming to foster a critical understanding of social problems. It promotes democratic interaction between researchers and participants, focusing on the causes and solutions to exploitation. The approach critiques conventional research methods and the power structures that perpetuate oppression through institutions. Participatory research has been applied globally across various groups, addressing issues in both industrialized and developing regions.Participatory research supports and contributes to the efforts of individuals, groups movements which challenge social inequality and work to eliminate exploitation. It strives to play a liberating role in the learning process by promoting the development of a critical understanding of social problems, their structural causes and possibilities for overcoming them. It does not claim to be neutral. As a research approach, it calls for democratic interaction between the researchers and those among whom the research is conducted. Democratic interaction depends upon the political participation of those involved in conducting research on the causes of their exploitation with the objective of overcoming the exploitation.enDemocratic interactionPower structuresOppressionSocial institutionsCritical understandingArticle