El Congreso Escolar del Bicentenario de la Constitución del Doce

Abstract

Since 2006 we have been carrying out an experience with an enormous pedagogical value to something less than a thousand students from the schools of the city of Cadiz. It is the School Congress of the Bicentennial of the Constitution of 1812, which arises from the collaboration of three institutions of the city: the City of Cadiz, the Department of Education and the University of Cadiz. Born with the ideal of making the children who then were eleven or twelve, into the young people who are today, 18 years old with a critical view of the world around them, with committed civic values and the idea of training them in the constitution and politics. But not the politics understood as we understand it today, about party ideas, but as the Greek polis concept of participation and involvement of citizens in public affairs of the polis (city). Both the dynamics of work, leaving the classroom to other learning scenarios such as active learning and through collaborative learning, awaken in them the interest in knowing the origin of our Constitution and make this educational project a personally enriching experience and an academically motivating learning.