Stories of indignation: The narrative approach as a methodology for a radical political formation

Authors

  • Oscar Andrés Ardila Peñuela Universidad Pedagógica Nacional de Colombia - Secretaría de Educación Distrital de Bogotá

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17398/2531-0968.13.11

Keywords:

political formation; radical democratic education; political emotions, outrage, narrative approach

Abstract

This project is situated in a critical approach to political formation that highlights the relevance of power relations that go through the constitution of subjectivities. Which implies asking about political expressions beyond the relationship between the individual and the State, including aspects of the daily life of the subjects. The research is positioned in a perspective of radical democratic education that highlights the importance of political emotions that, if they are excluded in favor of those limited by parameters centered on reason, can lead to an abandonment of the possibilities of political articulation.

According to this perspective, the research explores the possibilities of the narrative approach as a methodological proposal to analyze political emotions. This approach seeks to understand the meanings put into play by the subjects throughout their formative experiences, exploring them through the stories they elaborate on relevant events of their life experience.

Through exercises of narrative construction with students of basic secondary education in a public school in Bogotá, Colombia, its meanings have been explored around a political emotion: outrage. It has been possible to demonstrate that the narrative as a methodological proposal allows us to understand the constructions of political subjectivity of young people, in which experiences are articulated that break with traditional political antinomies such as the micro and macro politics, the private and the public, the State and civil society, or domination versus emancipation.

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Published

2023-09-28

How to Cite

Ardila Peñuela, O. A. (2023). Stories of indignation: The narrative approach as a methodology for a radical political formation. REIDICS. Revista De Investigación En Didáctica De Las Ciencias Sociales, 13, 177-193. https://doi.org/10.17398/2531-0968.13.11

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