The city: a living lab for teaching

Abstract

The contemporary pedagogy world has become complexed in the way on which the development of competences for life and the experimentation of models inside of everyday realities, are the main objective in the current education.

Geography today faces great issues from its teaching due two new tendencies which have developed the social studies to its application, going from technical geography to one more humanistic and able to be applied, it is the main challenge for teachers. For that reason, new strategies as citizen participation, interpretation of cartography realities, perception of urban and rural spaces, plus the direct experimentation with reality allows developing a new more significant learning in today`s students, giving to the teachers a guarantee more confident and realistic to the time of building new learnings.

For urban schools, the city becomes a great tool that makes possible the touch witch issues on territory, social life, environment, economic and even, politics, issues that are easily detectable for the youth who are really important for the development of citizen competences.

In the city of Manizales the tries to educate students in competences have makes very positive routes, in which territorial planning and trasverzalitation are allowed with branches on physical geography and human geography. For this reason it is necessary to share strategies in academic meeting to from the youth, so they can give their ideas to the building of a better society.