The study covers two thematic blocks.
The first block focuses on the presentation of the basis of the Innovation Project: methodological lines, participants, educational strategies, scheduling and assessment process.
The second block, focused on the development of the research, is divided into two chapters. The first chapter, Spatial Framework, Demography and History, is divided in some sections:
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Spatial Framework and History. We analyse the physical environment, the mountain range of Alcaraz and Segura, the Campo de Montiel region and La Mancha of Albacete.
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Footprints of the past: a sparsely populated territory. After a short historical introduction, we do a demographic analysis around the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries and we complete with information extracted from the Registry of Ensenada.
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Socio-professional structure of the population in the first half of the XX century. Comparative analysis of the different districts. From the municipal census of the different villages, differentiated by sex, jobs, level of literacy, etc. we analyse the role of women in the rural area -the most forgotten ones through History-, agricultural labourers, craftsmen, servants, farmers, etc, to put an end to this chapter with an analysis of the different levels of literacy until the first half of the XX century.
And the second chapter is made up of the repopulation proposals. We present different projects and/or repopulating proposals, with very diverse approaches and using a wide range of methodologies, according to the curricular subjects we work on. Thus, for example, from the area of Scientific Culture, our students propose some projects aimed at the New Technologies as engines of the social, demographic and economic change of the rural environment. From the area of Mathematics, some ground-breaking models of MetroMinuto are presented in different districts to facilitate the visitors their promenades when they go to these areas for their very first time. The current demographic study from the INE data has been carried out from the area of Mathematics Applied to Social Sciences.
In some other workgroups such as Latin and Greek, the students have chosen to interview some prominent people in these districts; they are prominent because of their innovative, entrepreneurial or artistic abilities. Our goal has been to gather information and ideas in order to propose some different new life models in the rural area. From the subject History of the Contemporary World, historical demography has been actively worked using the transcription of the municipal censuses of the villages involved in the first half of the XX century. These censuses are being safeguarded in the Provincial History Archive in Albacete. The historical aspect of every village has been studied using historiographical information and other primary sources such as the Registry of Ensenada. Besides, the website of this project has been designed and implemented specifically for it. From Industrial Technology, the students have presented different and complete technological projects, using the framework study of every district and according to the sustainable and integrated rural development. In the subject of Physical Education, from the research of games, dances, competitions and championships, our students suggest cycling routes, fun runs, basket marathons, etc. They also use in some cases resorts like interviews as a mean to strengthen their proposals and learn some other new repopulating measures that are being performed in the analysed villages.
The work is completed with a reasoned conclusion and the most outstanding assessments.
Finally the last block of Annexes presents the work teams, a model of Syllabus Design (Curriculum Programme), the timetables of some meetings, all meeting minutes and the travel routes that have been organised.