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MARTINEZ, María Cristina. The teacher as a political subject: The place of collectives and pedagogical networks in its execution. Educere [online]. 2006, vol.10, n.33, pp.243-250. ISSN 1316-4910.

The articles and publications published in Colombia and Latin America starting in the mid 90s announced that in the collectives and teacher networks the emergence of the teacher as a “subject of knowledge, subject of aspiration and subject of political action” was encouraged. We could say that there was a step forwards with the two added statements to “subject of knowledge” which had been construed in the pedagogical movement. Later, and especially after the third Encuentro Iberoamericano de Colectivos y Redes de Maestros (Ibero -American meeting of Collectives and Teacher Networks), the idea came around that the networks were configuring the teachers as political subjects. But, what does it mean to think of the teacher as a political subject? What is the extent of the reach of the collectives and pedagogical networks in the reconfiguration of the images built around the teacher in Colombia? Are other ways of being a teacher encouraged? This text aims to answer the previous questions which act as premises for its development.

Palavras-chave : subject of knowledge; subject of aspiration; subject of political action.