The discourses of teachers in memory processes

Abstract

There are many events that have marked our history as a country. Education plays its role as mediator of knowledge at the moment of knowing, remembering, commemorating and even celebrating around these events. However, we consider that there is a tendency to ignore, or if we know to forget, what has happened when these events are negative or can have a destructive influence on our society. Fact that takes away part of the memory and makes us be incomplete citizens. This is where the fundamental action of the teaching staff of the schools lies, who have in their hands the formation of future generations that have great possibilities of being excluded if they are not recognized as critical and reflective citizens, capable of having active participation in the historical processes that require transformations from and for their environment. This presentation exposes how the place of the historical memory of Colombia is present in the discourses of the teachers of "Social Sciences" of the Colegio Veinte de Julio IED, particularly when talking about the concept of massacre. It is based on the guidelines, curricular standards and curricula of this area and the possible speeches that the educators tell the students about the massacres.