Participating Countries

The students of I.E.S. Emilio Alarcos, aged 12 to 18, are participating in the International Monument Photographic Experience. We greatly appreciate the invitation to participate in this project. Getting to know and understand the richness and variety of the heritage if any community is one of the fundamental objectives of many academic subjects, especially in Social Sciences. Another virtue of the experience is that it teaches students another way of using their leisure time. At the same time it helps them develop a sense of aesthetics and feeling while at the same time helping them to develop as individuals. Through the project they learn to share their experiences with other youths from all over the world. In this way students are educated in the two basic pillars of knowledge of all reality. On one hand, the awareness of everything immediate, that which is related to personal experience. On the other hand we find the things that are shared on a social level, which, in the context of the project are share with other young people from different regions in the world. In this case, the step from something physical to something abstract is not only of intellectual capacity. It includes tolerance, solidarity, peace and love; the four nouns which are the essence.

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Guillermo Palicio Rodríguez
Teacher of Geography, History and Social Studies