Biografías narrativas de docentes: experiencias de adversidad educativa, significados y capacidades. Caso: Escuela de Grumetes “Contramaestre Juan Suárez”

Abstract

The research was realized due to the need to rescue from the teachers of the School of Grumetes (ESGRUM) "Contramaestre Juan Suárez", Superior Technical Institute, belonging to the Navy of Ecuador, the experiences lived throughout their professional careers, the meanings that it attributed to them, and how they have evolved from the development of capacities to educate in these adverse contexts, generating in this way an understanding and a characterization of the social and pedagogical context of the training process of the grumete. The participation of six teachers, within the framework of a qualitative study, through in-depth interviews integrated into the narrative biographies, allowed to obtain a variety of criteria from a personal and unique perspective of the one who teaches. The results of this research are typical of military life, such as fatigue, migration, demotivation, adaptation to the military regime, among others, have a direct influence on the teaching-learning process, causing in educators to question their own acting in the classroom. This leads them to resort to their lived experiences, as well as the development of their abilities to face and overcome these adversities, leading them to the point of feeling a personal commitment to help and guide the grumetes, in both the educational as in personal life. This research is of great importance in the educational field since it will provide with the bases to achieve changes in the conception of teaching in the military area, and specifically, to optimize the teaching - learning process of the ESGRUM, becoming most likely the pioneer in this field of investigation.