“La Milpa, environmental training project for Special Education students in Baja California”

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.973412402012

• Palavras-chave: La milpa, necesidades especiales, Educación Ambiental

• Keywords: The milpa, special needs, Environmental Education

• Abstract:

  This work is the result of the research carried out through the project, “La Milpa in Baja California”, which is part of the “La Milpa Agricultural Practices” project, oriented by the Ministry of Culture and implemented in Regional Popular Culture Units at Nacional level.
  The Colegio de la Frontera Norte participated through the Environmental Education Project “Ecoparque comes to you”, had the responsibility of putting it into practice in the state of Baja California, first with 6 basic education schools and then in an innovative way through a pedagogical, didactic, interdisciplinary and developer project in 6 schools with children and young people with special needs. The project's objective was to contribute to the comprehensive training of special education students by strengthening knowledge for the creation of a cornfield where corn is grown and harvested, accompanied by beans and squash. The project methodology is based on a Comprehensive, Curricular, Instructional and Training Design, where the importance of combining the work of the groups both by objectives and by topics is highlighted, where feedback and evaluation are constant, together with education based in the environment, positively impacting many aspects of the lives of these students.
  The cornfields created in each school behaved as an educational resource not previously achieved where pedagogical criteria have prevailed and students learn from experimentation and observation, which undoubtedly favored the teaching-learning process.