To the rescue of historical-educational contents: the hacienda de Coyotillos

Abstract

Work by itself methodologically pretends to be an educational guide, that motivates the rescue of our local history and show through research, an activity which us social science professors are leaving behind, that more can be achieved than just explaining past events, sometimes so far away that most of the times we cannot find the actors involved in the process and its meaning. Thinking and acting in a historical way in and outside the classroom will take us to the reconstruction of our past, it must be the door to rescue through different sources the education’s narrative history, political and social. In the classroom we use educative historical content given to us in printed form. In few occasions we bring about critical thinking, focusing more in the contents than in the diatribe of said contents and its production through research practice to reach a meta- history, that carries the creation of new constructs through other interpretations, starting with ours, the closest to us, our environment, with the purpose of looking at the labor system, colonization and the displacement of the native population, as educational content within the classroom.