Experience of Participation in Amassed Knowledge: Strengths and Limitations of the Group Analysis Method
This article, the result of a multidisciplinary collaboration, deals with an experience of the Group Analysis Method (Méthode d’analyse en groupe [MAG]) within a research project on the participation of accompanied persons in the training of social workers. After presenting the framework and implementation of the research, the authors explain how the method allowed participants to confront plural experiences and co-construct knowledge. They submit for discussion the perceived issues and debates that resulted from their different perspectives as researchers. These include, in particular, the posture of the researcher and the democratic objective of MAG. Thus, the discussion is not only methodical and epistemological but also ethical and political.