10 September 2010 (175)
September 11: We invite you to enter an imaginary gallery of photos of teachers. Some pictures will be blurry because they belong to another time and geography. Although our and others are contemporary. The sample does not purport to be comprehensive or rigorous. Surely be missing images. Some are being revealed. Is not there a single way of being a teacher. This sequence of pictures, almost whimsical, with his analogies or comparisons, try to approach a crucial question: what does being a teacher?
Photo 1: The teacher as midwife
"It helps give birth to" creating the conditions for life to come. It does not bring life from the outside. The draws from the depths of another. As Socrates. Education conceived as a construction of that education. The teacher extracting the value that lives within us, assisting, helping, accompanied always from outside. He himself, when the time comes, plan their own extinction, knowing that these other lives will never quite belonged.
Photo 2: The teacher apostle
planter or pastor there is the seed to germinate. Educating is crop farming. The harvest on the horizon to pick fruit.
Now a herd for protection, orientation. In the distance you see the sheep lost or missing. In the picture is not the wolf, but we all know that the wolf is always.
This collage can be a big blur: people are neither seeds nor herds. Our freedom breaks the static logic that makes the world predictable. In addition the teacher can be reduced to a mere guardian of morality. Teacher as savior, as an apostle altruistic in a dream world ...
Photo 3: The master craftsman or sculptor
Here the teacher size, shape, sculpt, remove the excess so that it is only their essence. "This guy is good wood, "seems to say," that no ":" What that nature does not pay non Salamanca. " Doubtful his hammer and knife.
Figure 4: The master beacon or compass
This teacher guide, guides, is a reference point, an arrow, a way forward. As helmsman who sees the dangers, open roads, sometimes for adventure, others by boredom.
Photo 5: The teacher will host a banquet
The table is set. Teaching is like feeding, offering a varied menu that respects the rhythms and appetites of the guests. Bon appetit. If you like ...
Photo 6: The teacher as actor
"The whole world's a stage, said Shakespeare, and every man and woman just playing. Each with its exits and their entrances, each in his own time in many papers. "
Curtain up. The teacher leaves the scene: his word, his gestures, his body ... From drama to comedy. What about students? "Spectators at risk of being caught accessories vain spectacle and narcissism who seeks only applause?
7-The teacher as a thief of fire
Prometheus had stolen fire from the gods. Since then the man was God and God rested. Spark, sun, fire the teacher brings liberation, democratization of knowledge such as rupture of hegemony. It is good to recall here the end of Prometheus.
8-The teacher as a bridge
The teacher appears here as a mediator, connecting distant or unusual situations, a facilitator, a tool for communication, a channel. It is the picture of the teacher as a negotiator of heterogeneities. This disturbing picture.
9-The master keeper of the tradition that
In this picture looks like the master custodian of those values \u200b\u200bproclaimed as essential by the community. Your task will be to preserve, keep alive what we easily forget. A dangerous game that leaves the doors to be the keeper of tradition.
10-The teacher as oracle
This teacher does not seek answers but questions. Oracle mode offers hints, suggestions mild; never solutions or armed or ready-made answers. Doubt prefer to say, doing what seemed simple complex.
A final group photo challenges us ... there are hundreds, thousands of teachers. Some appear out of focus but the senses are present. Their eyes seem to ask how we got out of this trap everyday a school that demands utmost efforts with increasingly limited resources. Some look away, others projected into the future. Faces are ones that speak of a school generates changes that respects the rights of our kids. Education Workers demanding better conditions for teaching and learning, retracing fragmentations y desigualdades. Luchan para que la Educación sea Política de Estado.
La galería está incompleta. Faltan fotos. Hay marcos vacíos, más de 600, la de los maestros argentinos detenidos, desaparecidos. No los olvidamos, pero no están. Tampoco están Francisco Isauro Arancibia, Teresa Rodriguez, Carlos Fuentealba… Su ausencia nos sigue hablando de la esperanza como pasión por lo posible, de la necesidad de habitar los propios sueños y caminar hacia ese lugar al que aún no hemos llegado, y alcanzar a ser lo que nunca fuimos.
Salgamos de la muestra.
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