Voice and Words of “Living Treasures”: Oral Sources and Recovery of Inmaterial Historical-Educational Heritage
Abstract
The voice and the word had a capital importance on the early history. Its establishment
as a scientific discipline involved that they were displaced by the written documents that were considered more objectives. At present, the new history, with its assertion of subject and subjectivity, gives at oral sources back the importance that they had lost.
It is in this context that history of education tries to recover the life histories of teachers, protagonists of the educational event. These life histories are constructed based on
life stories, obtained through interviews in which both interviewer and interviewee communicate through oral while establishing a relationship of empathy. Teachers have a dual status as social subjects and as living treasures. Their life histories should have a prominent place in any plan for recover the historical and educational heritage for several reasons. First of all, as protagonists of history for themselves deserves a paragraph of its own. In addition, their testimonies, to be interpreted in a scientific manner but without losing its subjectivity, are part and complement the collective memory of the classroom.
Finally, the unique voices and words of each teacher by all levels invite us to preserve the original sound recording because the flow of data and emotion they bring in, and incorporate a concept of museum in which objects, traditions and people should take a short space of their own.
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