Espacios abiertos y educación. Análisis e interpretación del lenguaje educativo de un espacio público

Authors

José Manuel Muñoz RodríguezSalto de línea Universidad de Salamanca. Facultad de Educación. Departamento de Teoría e Historia de la Educación. Salamanca, España.

Susana Olmos Migueláñez Salto de línea Universidad de Salamanca. Facultad de Educación. Departamento de Didáctica, Organización y Métodos de Investigación y Diagnóstico en Educación (MIDE). Salamanca, España.

Abstract

Education in open spaces. Interpretation and analysis of the educational language in public placesSalto de línea Salto de línea This article shows the possibility to consider a public park as an educational space, useful for the building up of the personal and collective identities, not because of the fact of being a park, neither for the activities carried out on it, but also, because in its roots -seeing based on the interrelation maintained by the users of the park- there is education which shows the meaning and the communication beyond the individual tradition, on the basis of the social meaning and social competence of spaces. Prior exposition of the background and the theoretical frame, the authors have carried out a descriptive research using the structured interview as a technique, which has been completed by a representative sample of the three main collectives that go usually to the park. The results show an average level of interrelation between users and the park. Certain interesting differences between the groups have been noticed, leading us to conclude that the park possesses an educational language. The educational action needs this kind of research studies that go in relation with the social, spatial and timed processes of the society. The Pedagogy of the spaces, based on the substitution of the abstract idea of space as a space of action concept, which is inherent to the human action and, consequently, to the educational action, is presented as a way of action which might be incorporated into living spaces.

Keywords

Educational processes, educational research, pedagogy of place, urban education.