My life history: towards a reflection of personal, national and international events through oral history (1948-2018)

Abstract

This investigation stems from an academic initiative in Social Sciences subject at Federico García Lorca School. Without losing sight of the contents and curriculum required for the 9th grade, the oral history methodology enables the development of the proposal, through interviews with family members representing the author’s four generations, who currently takes a baccalaureate at the institution.

Among the results obtained is the acquisition of a greater interest in the Colombia’s history, something absent in the author before addressing her life story. Personal documents, notarial records, spatial representations (model), genealogical tree and photographs that serve as a complement to the reading of oral sources have been compared and contrasted. From the author’s personal perspective, an evaluation of this methodology is made as a renewing element for Social Sciences learning, an area of her predilection in her secondary studies. At the same time, an attempt is made to trace some of the historic moments that have been decisive in the history of 20th century, in order to investigate their historical role as part of a generation that has developed in the phenomena of the beginning of the 21st century.