Artículos de Educación y Educadores · 2022

Narratives of the Conflict: The Pedagogy of Memory in a District of Medellín, Colombia

Resumen

The present research contributes to rebuilding the historical memory of the Picacho district, Borough 6, Medellín, through concrete actions that promote the participa-tion, integration, and reconstruction of the past in the voice and with the experiences of its inhabitants. As categories of this research, the narratives of the conflict and the pedagogy of memory are essential to understanding the war and working on collective memory. It was necessary to resort to the socio-critical paradigm, the qua-litative approach, and the biographical-narrative method for this work¿s reflective, participative, transformative, and critical interest. We found that the armed conflict in Picacho is due to social, economic, political, and cultural problems that appeared analogically to the settlement, causing the population affected by the violence to be socially organized, work for the district, and transform its reality. Thus, this re-search concludes that the pedagogy of memory acts as a promising methodological approach to reconstructing historical memory in territories such as Picacho, where there is fear of the past, ignorance of own history, and a lack of interest in rebuilding it. Still, we noticed the community¿s participatory capacity in social projects to trans-form and improve the district.