School, teachers, and communication. Contributions to the communicationeducation history at the end of the 20th century

Abstract

This article belongs from the Doctoral thesis: Common senses: female and male teachers in communication-education field in Bogota. developed in the Doctoral program in Education DIE-UD. The article presents one of the main components of the thesis: the historical reconstruction of the incorporation
of the questions done by communication field to education, school and teachers to explore its roots and processes. Research follows a historical perspective in order to reconstruct the analyzed period, this article is based in collected oral testimonies of leaders in the research processes, formation, and institutionalization of the communication education field in Bogotá on XX century nineties. By side, to recuperate this period of the field evolution, also the historical reconstruction tells the tensions and contradictions on the origins of the communication-education academic field and shows how it was stablished an asymmetric relation with teachers and the school in that moment. The analysis presents the configuration of the questions about school, knowledges and practices of male and female teachers, as same as it permits to analyze context dynamics in the emergence of the academic field by the end of 20th century.