¡That twenty years mean nothing! PILEC and teachers’ narratives: our path in the training of basic education teachers

Abstract

In 1991, a group of professors from Universidad Pedagógica Nacional at Ajusco, , as well as some basic education teachers from the states of Oaxaca and Distrito Federal, began the construction of the intervention project “The written language, literation, and reading promotion in basic education” (PILEC). In this article, we will describe the path that we have travelled in the field of narrative documentation, in the context of the PILEC-run formative programs aimed at basic education teachers. The stories written by the teachers are the result of processes of collective reflection and of collaborative composition and re-composition. The construction of these stories has gone through three different stages: The first one refers to the narrations published in the book La letra con gusto entra (1991-2000); the second one has to do with the experiences published in the Entre Maestr@s journal (2000-2008), and the third one includes the pedagogical experiences and the reading autobiographies published in the books LEO, Lectura, escritura y oralidad and Rostros de la lectura (2009-2011).