La historia de vida como herramienta para la enseñanza. Estudio de caso en dos instituciones educativas de Bogotá

Abstract

Colombia lives a process marked by violence, lack of national identity and ignorance of its own history. The role of the media has been to misinform society, serving the highest bidder or the current ruler. Education is left without a budget and the fate of young people becomes uncertain in a country that offers very few opportunities for progress. The situation our country is going through is related to the lack of interest in the political affairs of the majority of citizens, the ignorance of its past, the orphanhood of the struggles against social inequalities and the manipulation of the masses, the unsustainability of the countryside and the abuses against the indigenous people who rise up indignantly demanding respect for nature, but soon they are silenced or solitary in their struggle. Before an indolent people, unconscious, without memory and without exercising their citizenship. Faced with this serious problem, the present investigation appears as a possible alternative. Implement the teaching of Colombian history in schools through the life history method in such a way that children, adolescents and young people, know the social and historical processes of our nation, in a human and close way, not as it is imposed by a curriculum or official history, but rather by those who remember those events, who lived through the event.