Geography and History of the Canary Islands will be compulsory in ESO

Geography and History of the Canary Islands will be compulsory in ESO

File photo of an ESO class. / c7

The Ministry will modify its draft on the new curriculum, which included the subject as optional. It will be taught in third or fourth

AT The Palms of Gran Canaria

The subject of History and Geography of the Canary Islands will continue to be compulsory in ESO. The Ministry of Education
will rectify his draft on the new curriculum in the educational stage that included the subject History of the Canary Islands as an elective in the third year of ESO –students had to choose between this and Economics and Entrepreneurship– and it disappeared as compulsory in fourth grade.

Education argued this decision pointing out that the Canarian contents are included in the new curriculum in a contextualized way in several subjects from Infant to secondary, thus ensuring that students have knowledge about their land, and was offered as an optional for those who wanted to deepen.

The rectification comes after a wide controversy that had a last chapter this Tuesday in the Parliament of the Canary Islandswhere all the groups except the PSOE, including those that make up the Canarian Executive, demanded that the department led by the socialist Manuela Armas back down.

«Giving one hour a week separately does not give more knowledge about the Canary Islands than contextualizing our content in all subjects and at all stages, and we will maintain that, removing it would be nonsense, but
I do not want to make a war of this and if the parliamentary groups understand that the subject should be compulsory, we will do it, I have no problem, "the counselor told this newspaper.

Education will wait for the report of the Canary Islands School Council which will predictably be known next week about the ordering of this subject and the new curricula to specify how the subject will finally be and what subject will be subtracted from the schedule. History and Geography of the Canary Islands will be taught in the third or fourth year of ESO.

Continuity as a compulsory subject will force the draft curriculum to be adjusted, which will be to the detriment of some other subjectsince the number of teaching hours cannot be altered.

In the new curricula of the stages of non-university education that have to be applied by the Lomloe, better known as the Celaá law, the communities without a co-official language decide 40% of the contents. Armas defended the team of teachers and specialists who have designed the draft presented by his department and highlighted that, in the case of the controversial subject, it was concluded that "the best way to study the Canary Islands is as contextualized content and not as something alien and separated in a subject of one hour a week».

The socialist counselor, who recalled that the students of the islands study this subject because their party included it, pointed out that in the draft
«Knowledge of the Canary Islands is one of the six strategic lines with which the curriculum must be impregnated».

Teachers, unions and parties criticized that the fact that there is not a specific obligatory subject on the history and geography of the archipelago entails the danger that, given the impossibility of not being able to teach the entire curriculum of the subjects, the Canarian would end up being relegated by prioritizing more content. generalists.

The Minister of Education does not share this vision: «I have full confidence in the seriousness and responsibility of the teaching staff, in that they comply with the programmed contents in all subjects, and the canaries have everything they need to be taught and evaluated» .

The campaign for History and Geography of the Canary Islands to continue as a compulsory subject in ESO began with a collection of signatures promoted by teachers on the change.org platform and spread among teachers' unions and political parties. In the end Education will change the draft and continue as before.

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