The ardor of memory. truth, history and testimony in the classroom

Abstract

This article presents a synthesis of the most significant milestones about the place of the Pedagogy of Memory in the classrooms of Colombia, which has not yet managed to free itself completely from armed confrontation. In the departure is the historical premise of discriminatory, classist and excluding citizen formation, inherited from colonial times and republicanism limited. But the text focuses on the recent achievements of society, culture, and politics in pursuit of a stable and lasting national peace, through different processes developed so far this century, not exempt from setbacks and threats. These are also captured in the tensions between history and memory, that is, about the understanding between the long duration and the traces of the past in the present, which constitutes the condition of possibility of a critical conscience apt for the exercise of an exemplary memory projected into the future. A training project of this kind aims to renew the intergenerational bond of learning to live together based on the cultivation of relationships distinguished by otherness and difference, which is at the heart of any education not subordinated to the ends of economic progress or to the banality of lives without memory.