Research an everyday act of relationship and understanding of the environment: memories of the Soatá

Abstract

The present text addresses the education-research relationship as a beautiful and complex event that tries to respond to a series of daily questions in the field of education. For example, to the articulation of scientific knowledge with the aesthetic field, in younger people and with initial readings. A process is generated between a team of students of 10th (secondary) grade from the educational institution Juan José Rondón, from the municipality of Soatá, north of Boyacá province, and a group of grandparents and old people of the town; relatives, acquaintances and memories of places that activate childhood and the first experiences to approach language, such as memory and curiosity mediated by the word through stories, oral contact and the thread of memory. The reflection focuses on the development of critical and interpretive thinking in students, the formation of autonomous people who actively participate in political, social and cultural life; aspects that involve a reflexive exercise and the social responsibility of the individuals who make up a society as dissimilar as the Colombian one. The pedagogical model was "The Transformative School" by Giovanni Iafransesco, by which it is emphasized the role of language and the relations established between interviewers and interviewees. Some fragments of the stories provided by the grandparents are presented, narrations that partly show the aesthetic proposal worked here. In summary, it is highlighted the need to stimulate the creative attitude and the aesthetic and social sensibility, as priority elements that education must take into account at the present time, if what is desired is to promote human beings and societies that face their problems in a rational and sensitive way.