Maestros, hegemonía y contradiscurso

Abstract

Teachers, hegemony and counterdiscourse is the title with which researchers Sandra Soler and Pedro Baquero – from the inter-institutional research group Discourse Studies – collect, in this book, the fruit of two investigations carried out around the figure and representations of the teacher of the public sector in Colombia. The investigations, closely linked by their thematic field and line of research, located precisely in the studies of discourse and education, differ, however, in terms of the objects of study and the analytical perspectives that are chosen to address the question of the representations of the teacher and their mobilization in the discursive production of specific social actors, such as the media and the teachers' union itself. While the first investigation deals with the study of the representations of the teacher and his actions in the media communication in order to "unmask the social representations that crystallize the media discourse, and from which the interpreters - readers construct meaning(s)", the second, focuses on developing and applying the concept of counterdiscourse (Angenot, 1989, 1998, 2010) to the analysis of the teachers' own discursive elaborations, from which they have resisted and/or legitimized the hegemonic official discourse about themselves as social actors.