Intercultural - inclusive education from the cultural heritage: The voice of the students

Abstract

The present study focuses, mainly, on investigating the perception that primary and infant education students from a town in the Murcia region, have of the teaching of cultural heritage from activities that complement the curriculum, registered within non-formal education. The intervention program takes place in the Ethnological Museum of La Huerta from Murcia, based on workshops and strategies that favor the acquisition of curricular competences indicated in the current educational regulations and that benefit intercultural and inclusive education. As an instrument for collecting information, a questionnaire has been used. A content analysis has also been carried out from what was collected in the participant observation and the field diary, given the ethnographic nature of the study. The results indicate that the training activities around Cultural Heritage from non-formal education are a complement, for student, very effective for the acquisition of knowledge within an intercultural and inclusive education and favor the construction of more democratic societies.