COLLECTIVE MEMORY PRACTICES AND TRAINING FOR SENSITIVITY OF THE WORLD: Reading Eduardo Galeano with a Mathematics Educator at School.

Abstract

This article describes a research project developed by a mathematics educator based on a classroom experience carried out throughout 2024 with a group of high school students in Ciudad Bolívar, Bogotá, Colombia. The experience focused on reading texts by Eduardo Galeano to provide tools for students to question their reality. The school project was developed from a decolonial perspective, seeking to exercise collective memory practices and develop sensitivity to the world through reading Eduardo Galeano. The experience allowed the reading process to be recognized as a space for developing sensitivity to the world in schools, inviting students to view reality through different lenses and to understand individual and group creative processes as forms of collective memory construction. Significant elements emerged from these discussions that demonstrate a tacit recognition, on the part of the students, of the coloniality of being and power and of the forms of resistance that arise in life in contexts of urban periphery.