Everyday Life in Schools

Abstract

This story¹ refers to my experience during 25 years of research dedicated to understanding the everyday lives in educative networks. It will be told logically and according to thematics that emerged during that research and involved the author of this text. This story, however, as in every human experience, did not happen all at once, with all the understanding I have today, nor in the linearity of the explanation with which it is told here. However, although told in the first person, it must be made clear that it results as much from this author’s individual contribution as from a collective effort, because we are—and the whole story shows this—an accumulation of everyday actions and events, insignificant but necessary shapers of our humanity, the fruit of the labor of many. When describing these processes, I hope to show our permanent and everyday discovery that leads us to understand our daily need to create different ways of doing things, in knowledge networks and in multiple and complex significations.