He Concepción Provincial School (CPC) It is one of the pioneer schools in the province to include the necrotourism as part of school activity. Since 2017 the Professor Silvina Lópezwhich dictates History of San Juanvisit with your sixth year students of the Humanities and Social Sciences modality, the La Capital Cemetery.
The teacher told Zonda Diario that that year, together with Edith Floreswho is currently the vice principal, began visiting the museums and cemetery to experience the history and geography since it teaches both subjects in the same course.
“For the boys it was a innovative experience to experience history and have a more open conception of what death is“, because of the preconceptions of what is so attractive about going to a cemetery?”
López assures that “it is a very unknown activity, both in the teaching level as in the population. Here in San Juan it has been done very recently, but in the world it is not such a new activity, but rather it dates back to the 90s, especially in Italy. And in Buenos Aires “It is done in the La Recoleta cemetery.”
He states that the objective is also to analyze the different conceptions of death, because the cemetery is a reflection of society since different concepts can be distinguished. social classes.
The activity carried out by Municipality of the Capital It consists of a circuit of 27 points where you visit tombs, crypts and mausoleums. Among them the crypt of Paula Albarracín de Sarmiento, Alejandro Quiroga, the Historian Horacio Videla, the former governors Eloy Próspero Camus and Nazario Benavidezhe monument to those who died in the 1944 earthquake and the Pantheon of the Governors.
“The analysis that is done from the point of view and the significance of architecture is something that catches the kids’ attention,” he says.
Generally the school carries out this type of activity near the commemoration of the Foundation of San Juan due to its historical significance. This year, what is normal every year in CPCwhich made its mark with necrotourism in schools.
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