Escape Street is an initiative that the City Council launched three years ago with some schools in the city and the external contribution of the company Euskape. The new edition of this program, linked to local historical memory, will begin today and … It will last until the 20th. In this final stretch of the course, 172 fourth-year secondary school students from Eguzkitza BHI and Toki Alai Ikastetxea will participate in the seven challenges proposed by this program.
As indicated by the delegate of Historical Memory, Nuria Alzaga, “doing pedagogy on the history of Irun seems very important to us, that young people have knowledge about where we come from and develop it not only with theoretical questions, but with a dynamic activity that “includes logic and skill games.” As Gorka Añibarro, director of Euskape, later noted, “Irun has an impressive history, there are places that people pass through every day and that many people, especially the youngest, do not know the historical importance they have come to have.” His proposal is “a traditional escape room, mixed with a board game to make it traveling and at home, so that an entire class can participate in each session without any problem.”
Thus, this year the space occupied by the Centro Repúblicano (in Plaza Ensanche), the Irun Casino, the town hall, the Olaberria canal, Maritxu Anatol street, the Stadium Gal and the Avenida bridge will be visited. “We always seek to go beyond the game, to have a social or educational objective,” knowing that “with these methodologies things turn out better for boys and girls.”
Aitziber Gómez Director Eguzkitza BHI«Escape Street is a very interesting dynamic in which the students learn and, in addition, tell us that they had a good time»
Good tool
Taking into account the guidelines of the educational legal framework and the strategies of the Basque Department of Education, the focus of work on the Civil War has changed and for the various tools provided to carry it out, the director of Eguzkitza BHI, Aitziber Gómez, showed her gratitude «to the City Council and its Historical Memory technician, Maite Aguado; to Euskape and to the Nicolás Guerendiain Republican Association.
With their help “we can propose different dynamics and activities to reach students in a different way.” Specifically, they have learned about the Escape Street experience in its first two editions “and we would like to continue participating in future ones because it has been a very interesting dynamic in which the students have learned and, in addition, the feedback we have received for their part is very good. The previous times they have had a good time, it is a dynamic that they like,” said the director of Eguzkitza.
