Colombia, al igual que la mayoría de países latinoamericanos, se edificó como Estado nacional por medio de las guerras independentistas. La violencia, desde entonces, no ha dejado de ser un recurso para el proyecto de país. Ante la omnipresencia de la violencia en el Colombia, nace la necesidad de narrar las heridas, con el ánimo de entender sus causas y efectos. Quizás, en el fondo, existe la esperanza de exorcizar los demonios del trauma histórico. Esta obra rastrea los marcos de comprensión y mediaciones que orientan las obras literarias y cinematográficas en Colombia ante distintas
violencias histórico-políticas, dando especial atención al conflicto armado. Tal interés ausculta una narrativa diversa que apunta a una memoria estética sobre el conflicto actual y, sobre todo, a identificar los tópicos que resultan sensibles tanto para las víctimas como para los artistas y para el público consumidor. Esto permite trascender las agendas ideologizadas de la construcción de memoria nacional.

The issue of academic environments involves both research and practice. It gathers theoretical and practical pieces of knowledge for a permanent analysis and evaluation of pedagogy, content, and accomplishments in the educational field. Moreover, educational practices no longer occur within the boundaries of a specific field; in a globalized world, those practices must overcome their traditional boundaries in order to expand to different disciplines and to different ways of understanding pedagogy. In our time, knowledge travels; ideas and experiences are shared in educational platforms worldwide while educators and students create novel ways to collectively participate in research projects that contribute to a greater understanding of the universe. The anthology Teaching to Discern: Forming Connections, Decolonizing Perspectives aims to provide a novel context for academic dialogue on globalized pedagogical practices. pecifically, it focuses on what it means to teach abroad, which means discussing methodologies, pedagogies and contents used by educators who have had the opportunity of teaching in a foreign country. This book is a dialogue that engages academic experiences in a theoretically expansive and encompassing methodological and content-driven framework around the topic of teaching abroad.