IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME IN DIDACTIC
Didactics; Comenius; Time.
This research, entitled "The Lost Time of Didactics," seeks to rethink didactics from the perspective of Comenius, understanding it not simply as a technique or method, but as a human event that still manifests itself in contemporary experience, which is permeated by logic, bureaucratic demands, and technology. The relevance of this research lies in its rediscovery of the original dimension of Comenius's art of teaching, a theoretical reference for a universal didactic: teaching everything to everyone. Drawing on a seminal 17th-century thinker, we propose reflecting on the meaning of didactics as it has evolved in and over time. Comenius is this voice that comes from the lost past, but resonates beyond its time. Thus, the research is situated at the intersection of pedagogy, philosophy, and literature, seeking a broader horizon for thinking about didactics. Thus, the meaning of didactics is recovered from the instrumental rationality that characterizes current education, redirecting it to its phenomenological dimension of experience, work, and creation. How can we understand the lost time of didactics? To consider this question, we begin with the hypothesis that the meaning of didactics lies in Comenius's original experience, the one that phenomenology invites us to experience from things themselves, as they appear to us. In search of this lost time of didactics, we embrace the works of Marcel Proust (as an evocation of memory), Martin Heidegger (as an understanding of time), and Walter Benjamin (as narrative). It is in the unveiling and concealing of the very experience of Comenius's life and work that we strive to understand and enable the art of teaching everything to everyone. The methodology is phenomenological, bibliographical, and documentary. Thus, the research does not seek to repeat the past, but to give voice to the present, in which didactics manifests itself once again as a space for creation, encounter, and comprehensive education. In short, the lost time of didactics is not dead time, but time waiting to be recovered in the very act of teaching and learning. Recovering this meaning is to restore to education its dimension of art and coexistence, opening a path in which simplicity and complexity, narrative and experience, can once again intertwine.