The unconventional history of Cuenca in the mural

Abstract

This work focuses on the proposal of a method teaching unconventional history of Cuenca, through an archaic resource but currently in force such as the mural; that, at present, it is conceived from different perspectives ranging from vandalism to the sublime. Therefore, it is interesting to rescue the range of didactic possibilities that the elaboration of the mural offers for the students of high school, focused primarily on the attraction of learning through visual memory and teamwork. For this, it starts from the educational paradigms in the xxi century and the role of pictorial art in contemporary teaching, as well as, main themes that are being presented, where murals are made that represent historical moments of the city of Cuenca, obtained after an exhaustive investigation that legitimizes the works within the official history of the city, situation in which commitment arises as permanent actors in the education process, to generate new didactic proposals as soon as it is possible to contribute to holistic education with a category of transversality in which, creative spaces are created for students that allow them to work individually and in teams.