Las tradiciones sobre la enseñanza de la ciudad en la escuela: un análisis desde polis, civitas y urbs

Abstract

This article makes a diagnosis about how the city is taught in school from the perspective proposed by Professor Horacio Capel of polis, civitas and urbs. The paper is the product of a doctoral thesis on the traditions of urban teaching of school geography in Colombia and Spain, with a view that goes beyond urbanism and incorporates politics and citizenship into the teaching of the city. To this end, a scalar system is proposed where we review what theorists and academics think about the teaching of the city, what the national guidelines propose, the way in which textbooks adapt them, the way innovative educators teach, to finally arrive at what students learn. To identify how learning processes are developed and how the different levels of analysis are articulated.