Recordar, narrar y compartir: la memoria como eje para reconstruir la vida escolar en la época de la violencia bipartidista colombiana, desde relatos personales

Abstract

In this research seeks to rebuild the collective memory of school life and family memories about ideologies, the political allusions that were experienced during the early and mid-twentieth century in Colombia. In the way of interviews with teachers between 51 to 80 years it is intended to elaborate a collective memory of his school experiences and familiar memories. This research shows the importance of collective memory and the biographical method of life histories, as a source that allows us to know a past fact through narrations and witness. It is not possible to think of life histories without understanding the meaning of memory. The first definition of memory was established in ancient philosophy with Plato, as a means of knowledge; however, in the twentieth century with the positivist boom, memory had a new meaning related to a social and ethical role, without losing its condition of knowing. Under this new paradigm arises the concept of collective memory of Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) a French sociologist and philosopher. The collective memory of Halbwachs is based on the social relations and the groups to which we belong the human beings during our life and it is they who rebuild, validate and create our memories; In addition to influencing our way of being and acting. So the concept of collective memory allows me to validate my reconstruction of the school memory of the 30 's, 40 ′s and 50s in Colombia.