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Session code: 3-5-A212

Title: A CLOSE ENVIRONMENT BY TECHNOLOGICAL MEANS TO SUSTAIN THE REGIONAL IDENTITY

Contributer/s: Begoña Bilbao, Juan Luis Goikoetxea, Ander Olalde, Iñaki Gaminde, Idoia Markaida, Esther Elgoibar

Abstract : The main object of this research is to inform on the efforts and decisions taken by a minority linguistic community to add a cultural identity on educational curriculum. To this end it has been produced a multimedia DVD which uses the minority language used in Biscay (in the Autonomous Basque Community), to assess the school curriculum.

The Basque language, (euskara) despite of being one of the oldest languages in Europe and being subject in several studies is full of linguistic unknowns, including its place of origin. Nowadays there are more than 1,000,000 speakers of Basque in the Basque Country area, and about 200,000 in many other areas around the world, most of them in America.

Basque language is official language all levels of education.

The use of language patterns and the interaction they provide used in the theoretical structure bases created by Goikoetxea, have been the main source of this work. The DVD includes video -melodies, songs, animal sounds and records made by an informatics team-; audio -pieces of conversations, actions, landscapes and items associated to the country-, and a gallery of different pictures.

There has been an approach on theoretical aspect and curriculum facets for nearby environment subjects, for the integration of reference and absorption patterns with the rest of the topics here presented.

The material is one of the most important points, the DVD and the didactical guide which uses the technology to introduce an active methodology.