Caminos Perdidos de la Transhumancia

The action takes place in the geographical context of Santomera, focusing on the transhumance activity and its livestock paths. Several routes associated with this practice traverse Santomera, dating back to ancient times and coinciding with major communication routes along natural water courses used for the transit of livestock in past eras. Moreover, during a long period when human settlement was scarce, human presence was confined to agricultural and livestock activities in passageways, canyons, shelters, and refuges.

In a more recent era, it was a thriving livestock economy until today, where these spaces have been occupied by various elements, degrading the original concept of the activity. Nowadays, the rich intangible heritage associated with transhumant livestock practices is scarcely known.

• Assessing prior knowledge to facilitate meaningful learning.
• Creating a motivating learning situation to achieve a solution to a posed problem (Project-Based Learning or Problem-Based Learning, PBL).
• Introducing principles of heritage education specific to the municipality of Santomera.
• The entire methodological process is based on learning activities integrated into various contexts that pose a challenge and intellectual challenge for our students, where they learn by themselves, in a teamwork environment, and associated with the scientific research method.

• Emotional/physical dynamic
• Gaming
• Knowledge building
• Mapping
• Simulation
• Transformative direct intervention

The action has taken place in the following spaces:

• At the school: Both in the schoolyard and in the classroom.
• In various predominantly rural and historical spaces: Livestock farms, mountains, areas where prehistoric shelters of an agricultural and livestock nature are located, the orchard, public spaces such as the town hall, and livestock paths.
• In the auditorium of the Town Hall.

• School classroom
• School common spaces
• Suburban/rural

Classroom materials (whiteboard, school supplies, etc.), ancient maps printed on A3 paper (up to 6 maps from different eras), a dossier of educational materials with various informative elements for studying livestock paths (images, laws, activities…), video cameras, and computers for post-production work, props (costumes) for scene preparation.