Abstract:

Learning is a structured process that requires a myriad of ingredients as it is the transmission of knowledge, the development of skills, the technological application, it involves cognitive innovation and experimentation work. All of this generates vital experiences that survive in the memory of each human group. Our proposal for this conference consists of a study where learning and generation of knowledge go together. Their development takes place in a unique teaching innovation project, PIIISA project. Its aim is to bring research and knowledge generated at the University to secondary school students. These students are immersed in different research project coordinated by national and international scientists. PIIISA project was born in 2010 in collaboration with Delegation of Education of Granada, the Superior Council of Scientific Investigations (CSIC) and University of Granada. Its aim was to provide the students of secondary education the opportunity to approach and experience from an innovative perspective of knowledge construction. In this project participate more than 2000 students between 16-17 years old, assigned to 35 secondary schools, in which are offered 250 research projects of the University of Granada. Our project is titled “How did they live and what did they eat 4000 years ago? Discovering daily life of an argaric settlement in Sierra Morena, Peñalosa”.

The main objectives are:
- Approach and introduce knowledge of past societies to secondary school students.
- Encourage and promote learning of pottery productions as technical process and identity.
- Establish learning stages in the research process.
- Introducing and structuring knowledge acquired through learning processes.

To achieve these objectives the development of research process is raised. The main object of this study are ceramic vessels and their analysis. Vessels store, transform and serve food to promote the survival of populations of more than 4000 years ago (in the case that concerns us) so they are carriers of memory and cultural containers. For this purpose, are being offered to students a series of workshops through which, on the one hand, they are taught and instructed, and, on the other hand, the necessary tools are put at their disposal so that they themselves can generate knowledge. Thus, establish all the patterns of learning of technical processes of ceramic productions immersed in food cycles.

Keywords:

Innovation, archaeology, educational projects, pottery studies.