La poética de lo cotidiano

Abstract

-Some words that seem to enter the field of education by chance, in a way, show the great imbalances in which we live and which we end up naturalising. One of these star-words is mental health. Why is the issue of mental health in the spotlight in schools and out of school? Concerning ourselves with the well-being of children and their living contexts makes sense, but we inadvertently fall into transforming children into labels, which de-responsibilises adults and the context. This apparently reduces stigma because it is "naturally" named, but in the long run it has disturbing effects as it amplifies it and can even trivialise suffering. This is a paradox of the irruption of words from the field of health into our daily lives. This text aims to be an invitation to return to the poetics of the everyday. We speak of poetics because the school, as part of life, should not close itself to certain languages, but needs to recover the word, listening, conversation. It is therefore essential to find words that do not fracture the connections between the subjective and the social, the framework that makes each person an original being, thus avoiding falling into other words that lead us to slide quickly into pathology and lock us into predetermined meanings, creating fixed identities and static realities.