Heritage, education, and communication towards the local development of Azogues (Cañar-Ecuador)

Abstract

The project, "The value of heritage from the didactics of local education", is instituted as a proposal focused on knowledge, conservation, responsibility and recreational-cultural interaction of citizens with their local heritage. Emphasizing the responsibility of the Decentralized Autonomous Government (GAD) of the Municipality of Azogues, this strategic communication tool is conceived, through which the communication, cultural and educational dimensions are articulated, with implications for the curricular conception and teaching practice. To understand then, "Escuadrón "B" L.C - young guardians and diffusers of the pileu de Azogues", undertook a campaign of care of the local patrimony, anchored to an important objective, that of fomenting the knowledge of the patrimonial wealth of Azogues, through didactic tools of the education, to sensitize the children, young people and community in general on the value of the patrimony in their daily life.
The project was firstly based on a work articulated between heritage, education and communication from the theory in order to link culture and the city through learning; secondly, it emphasized the possibility of making the updating of the curriculum an opportunity to raise awareness among students/educators; finally, heritage management was seen from the classrooms and from the communication practice as a tool to produce an approach of students, teachers and the community to the cultural assets and to develop attitudes of safeguarding the heritage of their locality.