Teaching innovation and controversial heritage as a memory place: the Calderon de la Barca air-raid shelter

Heritage education connects with the student’s social environment. It makes a perfect setting for social learning. In this environment, the presence of cultural heritage as a past legacy opens up a wide range of opportunities from conservation to be the primary source of interdisciplinary knowledge. In this text, it develops a teaching innovation proposal for the training of future teachers inspired by the controversial heritage (air raid shelter) of the city of Cuenca. These territory’s traces can be exploited from the didactic and educational dimension. So, the proposal had been materialized through two basics related elements: on one hand, an interpretative itinerary in situ and on the other, the use of research and enquiry methodologies developed previously in the classroom. Archaeological remains become essential pieces of historical memory. The act of choosing a place to visit (local and close to the students) it responds to a didactic practice that focus the educational value of the social science teaching-learning process. In that way, it overcomes a compartmentalized and sealed vision of these sciences.