El uso del Patrimonio Cultural Edificado en la didáctica de las ciencias sociales en temas locales

Abstract

The relationship between Heritage and Education is one of the new ways to interpret, recognize and safeguard the Built Cultural Heritage. Foster the link between teaching and conservation is a challenge that must be taken and socialized with the expectation of creating a citizens' behavior liable to heritage. This practice has had positive results from actions such as those carried out by UNESCO, in its various conventions that increasingly look to education as a factor of social changes against equity. The possibility of this reflection is described through a case study, focusing on Railway Station Cuenca, heritage resource that is considered as a teaching resource in the subject of History and Social Sciences, and as a means of civic education, identity and belonging culture to heritage buildings. The curriculum methodology increasingly suggested by teaching to enhance the cultural and historical context in which the student develops. It is an option that can start the practice of safeguarding, reading of heritage attributes and especially training a preventive consciousness from the elementary levels of formal education, and from it to form a responsible and defender citizen of built heritage to which it belongs.