The persistence of the aroma of ties: being and doing school in times of emergency. Revisiting what has been lived to make it an experience

Abstract

Through writing we seek to reconstruct the meanings and senses constructed in the experience of sustaining the school during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Following F. Guattari, we retake the figure of the cartographer as a way of reading the transformation of the usual landscape of the school in an unprecedented time; that of the emergency that placed us in a kind of deep interstice with respect to the instituted. A time in which we were forced to think of new ways of doing school, to dismantle immobile landscapes, to discuss certain already given worlds in order to make possible the appearance of other territories.

From this way of looking we seek to give a place to the affections, to the links and to get involved in the intensities of our time, to read the signs and meanings of the experience we have gone through in order to compose the cartography as a trace of the nonconformities that guided the evolution of 2020 in a traditional institution in the city of Córdoba.

The focus is particularly centered on the collective and singular way of meaning the task from the teachers' perspective; gathering some of the multiple ways of inhabiting the experience from the symbolic and assuming the fractures, the unforeseen, the conflicts, the contradictions and ruptures.

The path is an invitation not to lose sight of the persistence of the uncertainty and unfinishedness of the surrounding world, in the conviction that this recognition opens the possibility of recovering the power of the senses to face the challenges in the educational institutions of the present and continue making school.