The school as a territory of thought; a reflective, critical, academic and liberating space

Abstract

It proposes to reveal how drug trafficking influences, the forms of resistance and re-existence in the school in the North of Valle del Cauca (Colombia). From a qualitative approach, texts of life stories and stories of experiences are formed in dialogue on the generating themes School and drug trafficking, analyzed through interpretation matrices and their triangulation; authors, actors and teacher participants in a pluritopic hermeneutic perspective. Students, parents, teachers and other members of the school community participate in it. Its conclusions highlight: the colonial mark in the national (glocal) economy; the imperative imposed by precarious economic conditions; the high levels of corruption that create a breeding ground for the emergence of criminal groups; the school as a possibility of human formation that resists and re-exists drug trafficking; the contradictions to which young people are subjected in the approach to the problem of consumption and the capacity of some members of the community to build a life project that allows them to re-exist outside the logic of drug trafficking as historical subjects.