Contributions for the renewal of the school literary canon of education El Salvador average

Contributions to the renewal of El Salvador high school literary canon

Abstract

This paper seeks to provide contributions to the renewal of El Salvador’s high school (grades 10-11) literary canon, both in structure and in practice, so that its use in the teachinglearning process makes possible significant learning. The review of the literature shows that there are very few studies on the Salvadoran school literary canon. However, the existing studies make key contributions, such as the identification of deficiencies in pedagogical coherence and cultural relevance in the curricula of Language and Literature (the equivalent to Spanish), and the characterization of the teaching model of literature in El Salvador and its high school literary canon as histori historicist, Europeanist, masculine and conservative. Besides, it is verified that teachers are not trained to develop a teaching-learning process in literature focused on the development of skills, but that teaching in this field follows a banking scheme. Given these problems, the studies point out the needs to teach literature from a defined and explicit theory of literary reading, and to outline pedagogically and epistemologically an integral model of literary reading that considers both its individual and socialization aspects. Because of its potential to meet these needs, literary education is proposed as a more functional model for teaching literature. Based on this framework, recommendations are made for a functional renewal of the high school literary canon, and linked to these, also recommendations to optimize the use of the canon in education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Emphasis is placed on the creation of a multidisciplinary team and set of defined, explicit criteria derived from a functional model of teaching literature, as conditions for a pedagogically effective reelaboration ¿ of the canon. It is considered that, in general, the theoretical framework and the recommendations of this article can be extrapolated to El Salvador middle school level (grades 7-9), because of the similarities of its canon with that of high school