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MIRANDA-CARVAJAL, Carlos Ernesto. Local cultural heritage as a tool for education. Rev. Int. Investig. Cienc. Soc. [online]. 2017, vol.13, n.1, pp.25-34. ISSN 2226-4000.  https://doi.org/10.18004/riics.2017.julio.25-34.

Education in rural areas has some distinctive features which foster personal development based on the students’ own reality. For each one of these realities, teachers are to be considered as promoters of the development of the rural areas inhabitants to, in return, make progress in these places. Thus, rural dweller will cherish their own creations and forge a close link between curriculum and heritage. The design of such curriculum is the teachers’ great task bearing in mind the different communities’ needs. It is also a tool to promote both literacy and well-being.The adoption of different practices coupled with a sociological and critical paradigm along with local projects make the curriculum vitally important for the development of the aforementioned areas by making sense of the subject matters and by treasuring the already existing popular knowledge which create sense of belonging. All this is the most powerful tool for cultural preservation.

Palabras clave : education; rural education; heritage..

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