I am a retired teacher and have worked 36 years in teaching geography, history, language and literature in a high school in a working class neighborhood of Bilbao. My students were from ESO, that is, from 12 to 16 years old. Most of them came from migrant families and so I have worked with a diversity of learning styles and a variety of cultural contexts.
I have participated in Memorias Compartidas with the course “Dignified death under capitalist conditions” as a co-educator. I have found this project to be extremely enriching and rewarding. It reminded me of that great time when I was interacting with young people who pushed you to continuously train yourself to answer the questions of the group of students.
Throughout the course, these young participants have been curious and eager to learn. They are enormously respectful of us who are older people from another generation and are interested in our experiences, which must be distant to them due to age and cultural differences. For my part, I encourage anyone to join this experience.
