The games on paper. A manifestation of Nicaraguan school culture

Abstract

The school, besides being a social institution where the teaching of science and citizenship education takes place, is a space for socialization and a builder of cultures to the extent that the school community interrelates among itself and with its environment. This starting point led the teacher-researchers to characterize paper games as a cultural expression that emerged in the classroom outside the educational processes, with emphasis on identifying the types of paper games, describing how they were played, determining at what moments they were played and specifying the didactic uses they have in the educational processes. The research was developed by means of oral history methodology through workshops, interviews and surveys, with five groups of student classes as participants. Based on this methodological research process, games such as hangman, devil’s path, sun rays, stop, Z game, naval war, dot, x and zero, cart and seeing the future were collected. Finally, the article concludes with a reflection on the challenges that educators and researchers have to assume in the rescue of school cultural manifestations that modernity has relegated in the hectic daily life.