Vol. 1, Nº 1 (2021): Studia Humanitatis Journal
Controversy

Education and culture in times of pandemic. The methodological proposal of the program for educational innovation "Live and Feel the Heritage"

Rosa Suárez Muñoz
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3541-4257 (unauthenticated) Delegación Territorial de Educación y Deporte. Granada, España

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Published 2021-07-24

Keywords

  • Education,
  • Culture,
  • Pandemic,
  • Heritage,
  • Educational Innovation,
  • Challenges,
  • Digital Transformation
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Abstract

In order to promote the knowledge and enjoyment of culture and heritage in Andalusian educational centers, the Ministry of Education of the Junta de Andalucía created the program for educational innovation "Live and Feel the Heritage". In this way, it was intended to bring students closer to the historical, artistic and ethnographic values ​​of their environment, presenting heritage as a necessary tool to promote access to culture as a fundamental right. However, due to the home confinement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the projects that made up this program were truncated, making it necessary to provide support from the Ministry itself to devise creative alternatives to the new situation that would allow to continue bringing culture and culture closer together. the assets to the students despite not attending the Educational Centers in person.

This article outlines the methodological lines that were followed to face an unprecedented situation so far in the educational field and describes some significant experiences. A qualitative methodology has been used and data have been collected as a result of her own experience as the provincial coordinator of the Program.

As a main conclusion, it is established that the different solutions that were considered, as well as the adaptation of the Program itself for the following school year, determined a paradigm shift that would force us to contemplate new horizons in these relationships, in which digital transformation would play a role protagonist