The school and its emotions in the memory of Jesús Solís de la Torre (1947-1958)

Abstract

The school is a space where not only knowledge is learned, but also where subjectivities are shared and emotions are built in a complex interaction process that is part of what has been called school culture (Escolano, 2022). There, knowledge, practices, disciplinary devices, moral codes, desires and aspirations, materials and spaces come into play that, in action, produce, reproduce, legitimize or sanction behaviors and affections, which serve to guide social action. Assuming the above, in this work we ask ourselves what kind of emotions did the school produce in the student through its spaces, teachers, books, materials, etc.? How are those emotions from the past remembered and told in the present? To answer the above, we intend to recover the memory of J. Jesús Solís de la Torre, who was a student in the forties and fifties of the last century. Through an in-depth interview, we investigate his past to recover a part (childhood) and an aspect (school). From what he remembers and means, we identify the emotions, both positive and negative, to try to account for the role they played in his formation as a person.