The project presented here arises from the new educational needs that emanate from the changes taking place in the social, cultural, political, and economic spheres. The boundaries of formal education, as it has been understood until now, are being breached by new forms of learning, communication, and relationships, which are claiming their place in educational institutions. This is particularly relevant at the level of secondary education where the boundaries of conventional cultural and social systems are constantly being overwhelmed by these new realities (Fernández Enguita, 2016). This makes it necessary to rethink the systems of teaching and working in the educational system. Students at this educational level have a profile and resources closely linked to the knowmadic society (Cobo, 2016, Movarec, 2008), in which there is less and less sense in a teaching model based mainly on the unidirectional transmission of knowledge (Downes, 2017). This, in interaction with families, teachers and other educational agents, generates a world of conflicts of various kinds: curricular, social, attitudinal and expectations, etc.
We are therefore interested in learning about experiences that are being developed in this sense and that are generating proposals that transform either the curricular or organizational dimension, the framework of relations with the community or the involvement of the new virtual spaces (Reig y Vílchez, 2013). To this end, we are developing the research "Nomadic knowledge in emerging pedagogical contexts: mapping innovative community practices in secondary education", over the years 2022 and 2023. Its focus of study is the disruptive, transformative, and emergent experiences that are being developed in secondary schools in Andalusia. We are interested in mapping the fundamental elements that are present in the development of these experiences from the perspective of integral, ubiquitous, and expanded pedagogies that connect and curricularly integrate places, people, and times for learning.
The research is focusing on the analysis of emergent experiences, using participatory and narrative research methodologies that allow for a respectful, hermeneutic, non-invasive, negotiated and openly collaborative approach.
In this paper we present the study of one of the cases studied, which takes place in the secondary school "Cartagineses". This is in a semi-urban area on the outskirts of the city of Malaga, where for the last 10 years an educational project has been developed based on the construction of a professional community, together with the families and the municipality, centred on interdisciplinary and collaborative work projects, openness to the environment and the use of personal technological resources, with the subsequent abandonment of the textbook as an educational tool.
The objectives we set ourselves are as follows:
1. To analyse and evaluate collaborative strategies in the Secondary School environment, offered as creative workspaces where students, teachers, families and/or external social agents configure new citizen, professional and personal profiles in diverse fields of experience and activity (artistic, social, literary, scientific, technical) through the conformation of horizontal architectures of participation and dialogue between expert and profane knowledge.
2. To recognise and recover emerging types of knowledge that act in secondary schools, alternative and/or convergent with the official curriculum, which promote and develop political, social, and cultural models in a social framework of transformation and change in ideological and epistemological proposals.
3. To recognize the guidelines, relationships, models, and knowledge that secondary education centres bring into play in the search for school success and their meaning in relation to the conditions established from the current frameworks of society, as well as the way in which both visions interact, compete, confront, or collaborate, in the achievement of an emancipated, participative and critical citizenship.