Abstract:

This article presents the research results of the study that took place in a public school located in Bogotá, Colombia. A narrative-biographical method was applied to look into the city and school lived space. It was focused on 5 life stories of two teachers and three students. The result's interpretation was done from the phenomenological hermeneutic approach, to find the sense of this research question: What is the quality in the connection between the student lived places out of school, where cultural and ideological expressions are developed, and the dynamics within, which allow to propose otherness situations through an hermeneutic pedagogy of the lived place? The results bring an essential idea which is to connect spaces in the city and at the school to strengthen processes of otherness. As a consequence, a hermeneutic pedagogy of place is presented as an educational action which allows to recognize the cultural differences of subjects that our society demand.

Key words: pedagogical research; school; placeness; otherness; hermeneutic; education