PEACE AND COEXISTENCE: VOICES OF TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND PARENTS IN CAUCA, COLOMBIA

Abstract

Objective: to interpret the sense of peace in teachers, students and parents in three schools of the Department of Cauca (Colombia), leading scenario of the Colombian armed conflict. Methodology: the methodological proposal of the complementarity was used with the aim of understanding social realities and the voices of the actors as their expression, following a pre-configurative, configurative, and re-configurative design. In the first, practices associated to peace were observed and then recorded in their field journals identifying social categories. In a parallel manner, studies and theoretical and research antecedents from these categories were revised; in the second these were expanded and deeply treated by means of deep interviews and drawings; in the third, a sense with the support of the proposed categorization by the grounded theory, was given to the findings. The social actors were nine students, four teachers and three parents. Results: the voices echo the search for peace, not as a product, but as a process of relationships and meetings with others. Conclusions: to learn how to care for “others” and from the “others” becomes a challenge for the educational processes in the institutions having as a final aim, the formation of new generations who are more respectful and administrators of peace.