The historical-cultural theory and the teaching of Geography in the Cuban Basic Secondary School

Abstract

The production of this book was an act of resistance. The theoretical and practical formulations presented here – by us, organizers, professors, researchers, intellectuals, authors of the texts – are part of a process that started before and intends to continue after its production, but that, certainly, is marked by the context of serious crises: health, political, social, economic. For this reason, we could not start this presentation without mentioning this context and the resistance to it. In times of uncertainty, of sadness and losses associated with the pandemic (Covid-19), of denial and devaluation of science and education, to produce a book like this, on theoretical and methodological paths, explicitly guided by an epistemological line, to enhance the learning and formation of children and young people with the help of knowledge of geographic science, is to resist and to venture on the possibilities of becoming, on the possibilities of what it might be, of utopia. To resist, to persist, to rebel, not to give up on our projects and to work to develop them, even in such difficult situations, is what we have done and what we will do in order to participate in the construction of a better world.