Corporal biographies of war woven from art: teacher’s knowledge and feelings

Corpobiografías de la guerra tejidas desde el arte: saber y sentir de los maestros

My intent in this paper is to narrate my research experience of my doctoral dissertation (2018-2020) with teachers from the department de Caldas, Colombia; a thought-work that I assumed from the aesthesis path as a possibility of other insights from the educational and social research, to know and feel the experiences, perceptions, and the lived-journey of teachers exposed to war. Events that are difficult to understand and therefore, need an adequate narrativization, which I approached from literature, music, film, and photography, as ways of expressing the feeling of the bodies and the metaphor to communicate the horror of the war against teachers. In my thesis, art becomes the possibility to go through the memories lodged in the corporal biographies, those from the teachers´ exposure to war, which were installed in my thesis as a possibility to express the knowledge and feelings that inhabit the bodies, to reconstruct the memory of a suppressed, repressed and prisoner of war educational thought. Hence, I present the epistemic and methodological warps woven from art, to express that sciences must be inhabited by the teachers´ experiences, perceptions, and life lessons, as vindicating reflexivity to transform the discourse of a war that has shaped educational thinking.