Guía didáctica para visitar la sala etnográfica del Museo Pumapungo de Cuenca

Abstract

The present innovative educational tender takes place in the field of social studies didactic. It intends to create a didactic guide to support the Unidad Educativa Santana’s fifth-grade students guided visit to The Ethnographic Room of Cuenca’s Pumapungo Museum, so trough this experience they achieve meaningful learning about Ecuadorian ethnics. To accomplish this, a diagnose is run using different information retrieval approaches, such as: interviewing the Social Studies Program Coordinator at Unidad Educativa Santana, and survey questionnaires for the fifth – graders. The results are reflective of the useless an undervalued evaluation children and adult make about the visit to The Ethnographic Room of Cuenca’s Pumapungo Museum, as a tool to identify themselves as Ecuadorians. This may due, according to the respondents, to the lack of planning and previous preparation of the visit, which would prevent it to relate to the contents proposed for the grade as institutionally as governmentally. To face this, an innovative constructivist proposal is held to create a didactic guide for the educator, which will allow him/her to plan, prepare and motivate the guided visit trough different constructive, ludic and reflective activities that will let students achieve meaningful learning and to relate to its environment, context and identity.