Sistematización de experiencias, investigación y evaluación: aproximaciones desde tres ángulos

The Systematization of Experiences, as an exercise for the production of critical knowledge through practice, has increasingly gained significance in popular education experiences in Latin America, as well as in other contexts. Many times mistaken as mere data collection or the description of events, or even as the production of a synthesised report of an experience, the conceptualisations concerning the systematisation of experiences have created interesting points of reflection regarding its specific identity. The present article deals with this challenge by proposing the particular features, alongside the common and complementary ones, that the systematization of experiences would have in relation to other exercises of creating knowledge such as evaluation and systematization. It also places this reflection not only in a conceptual but also in a historical frame of reference, since it defines these relationships as a part of the challenge of building new epistemologies which confront the traditional ways of producing scientific knowledge and the dominant ways of producing and spreading know-how.