Voices of Teachers in the Context of Repression and Social Struggle: Collective Memories and Identities

Abstract

In the scenario of the coup d'état in Honduras, starting in 2009, various manifestations of repression were generated inside the training centers by authorities related to government power. In this context, the research that we disseminate explores through the narrative documentation of Honduran teachers, their experience of repression within the training centers within the framework of the social struggle. For this, the research is located in the biographical-narrative approach, with the participation of eight teachers who reconstructed their experiences through the creation of autobiographical life stories. The results reveal, from the lens of autobiographical interpretation, the existence of subcategories such as: stories of repression, subjectivities and emotionality, transformation of teacher identity and training for social justice in circumstances of repression and social struggle. It is intuited that the narrative documentation, in addition to contributing to the reconfiguration of historical memories, transmits the reconstruction of historical memory and makes it possible to visualize the points of bankruptcy generated in the teaching identity from experiences in various social trajectories.