Methodological alternative for knowledge of the history of the community in multigrade schools

Abstract

Knowing the history of the community in which the school is located and the life of the primary school children develops is an objective of the teaching of the History of Cuba in multigrade schools. In the present work, the results of the methodological alternative used for the knowledge of the history of their community are presented with the application of the activity book entitled "My Great Homeland and My Community" in multigrade schools of the Viñales municipality. This notebook is the result of the research project "The improvement of the multi-grade elementary school". The activities that make up this notebook facilitated the investigation by primary school children of the fifth-sixth multigrade of these schools about aspects of the history of their community and their cultural historical heritage; family members and other community members were involved in its implementation. These activities contributed to the development of identity feelings, which is of vital importance to favor the care and preservation of the Viñales Valley declared as "Cultural Landscape of Humanity". In the development of the experience methods of the theoretical and empirical level were used, as well as the mathematical statistics that allowed to base the application of the proposal and the evaluation of the results obtained. The implementation of the activity booklet was evaluated as very positive by teachers, principals, primary school children and community members who actively participated in the search for the necessary information to respond to the tasks oriented.