How do teachers experience rural life? A life story (Essay).

Abstract

This article is oriented to recognize the realities of an educator in a rural area of the department of Cauca, Colombia. Its purpose allows the understanding of the social, cultural, economic and environmental experiences of the communities and territories; lived spaces in which situations of rural realities are evidenced, unknown to many, invisible to others. It is based on the life story of a teacher who tells what he lived in three rural institutions: indigenous zone, peasant zone, mixed zone, located in the department of Cauca, affected by social conflicts: violence, displacement, poverty, lack of infrastructure, absence of the state in the territories. The essay does not give an account of the teaching-learning processes in the rural school, it gives an account of the realities lived by a teacher in terms of the views that must be re-examined in the context of educating in rural areas. In this sense, it gathers parts of the story as a story-lived by the rural teacher, to finally reflect on the gaps in rural education that do not allow the growth and social development of the territories.