El aprendizaje servicio como metodología para la enseñanza de la Historia y el patrimonio local

Resumen

Service-learning is an innovative methodology that begins to have relevance. It consists of training students in civic values, who are able to put their skills to face social problems. In the field of history and heritage teaching it can become an alternative methodology, encompassed in inquiry strategies and cooperative techniques, where students play an active role. However this type of methods with being very interesting do not usually result in something useful for society. Service-learning can fill some gaps in the training models that are being used by providing active collaboration between educational entities and social groups, which deal with problems that affect the context in which students live. It is proposed that, for a better teaching of history at initial educational levels, study the problems of conservation of the heritage of their immediate environment and the landscape in which it is located. In this text a proposal is made so that the students of the Degree in Primary Education of the University of Murcia (Spain) analyze local history and heritage, collaborating with civic associations that promote the conservation of a heritage that they usually do not know.