The environment as a didactic resource in textbooks. Comparative analysis of the Milpa and the Huerta

Abstract

The environment as a didactic resource is a consolidated line of research in science education that allows strengthening contents (conceptual, procedural and attitudinal) worked on in the classroom and that enables a globalizing approach to science teaching by integrating natural and social elements. This research aims to determine if the textbooks of the territories where the Mexican Milpa and the Valencian Huerta are located, incorporate the immediate environment and in particular these agricultural spaces, in science in primary education. A total of 75 Mexican and 96 Spanish textbooks were analyzed. The Huerta and the Milpa are traditional landscapes with great didactic possibilities, but little used in primary education textbooks as a resource for the contextualization of science teaching-learning.