Discovering the past to build the present: «excavation» as the manifestation of identities

Abstract

This experience aims to show the educational act as an exchange of individualities (understood as transfer to another individual and sharing through a personal link) where each person involved: children, adults and other significant models defines or draws a landscape where all aspects inherent to personality generate experiences that give rise to the development of meaningful learning. All this strengthens the plot that defines and addresses real educational priorities based on interests and imageries that are linked, therefore building a model of reference in interaction with each other, giving rise to innovative experiences. Our aim is to take real life to the classroom, from the significance of spaces and times for experiential action, as well as from the transformation in different learning contexts. Thus arises a «macrospace of experiences» that takes the form of an Archaeological Excavation in which, following a real method used in archaeology, children discover their own lives and share them through different codes oral, written, visual, artistic and above all through their own identity, which is defined by the attitudes and actions they share.