The Story and Experiences of Teacher Maria: A 20-year old period in the rural multigrade school "El Granadillo

Abstract

This research aims to describe what has been the history and experience of a teacher after 20 years of teaching in the same institution addressed from her life story that denotes the reality of Colombia's rural teaching, this is a narrative research developing through class observations, interviews through an interactive dialogue between the researcher and the participant and documents analysis such as photographs, educational material, diaries and field notes. This research is carried out with the teacher in charge of the rural school El Granadillo in Sesquilé, Cundinamarca. The story is analyzed and constructed from the pedagogical reflection of the teacher's life history, resulting in an investigative report that provides identity to the rural educational process of Colombia. This research is conducted within the framework of the Bachelor of Foreign Language English and enrolled in Research Field: The use of the English Language and its Contexts within the Research Subproject: The Voices of the LLEI realities: Life stories and experiences of Santo Tomas University open and at a distance.