Metáforas sobre la existencia de la escuela.

Abstract

This article reflects on the uses that some positions make of the factory and prison metaphor to develop a legitimizing discourse of the objection to the Colombian school, whose foundations, directions, effects and sources become the object of analysis. Thus, this study stems from the literature review that motivated a doctoral research oriented under the qualitative design, the hermeneutic paradigm, and the multiple case study approach. It is problematic that such discourse circulates lightly in the Colombian media as information directed, mainly, to teachers and educational directors, under naturalizations that are established in the common sense of many, since silence and not discussion or deliberation despite the harmful impact that such a tirade against the school has on the teaching profession, on educational praxis and on school dynamics. This work delves into how these metaphors explain the historical conditions of the emergence and functioning of this social institution and proposes the study of the school experience as a fertile path in the search for references, metaphors, images, and figures that allow re-imagining other possible narratives for the understanding and revitalization of their senses of existence