Trazando la Memoria Histórica de ciudades de Nicaragua: El papel de la Historia como ciencia y su Contribución a la Extensión Universitaria como experiencia académica en la Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería

Abstract

The article "Tracing the historical memory of Nicaraguan
cities: The role of history as a science and its contribution
to the University Extension as an academic experience
at the National University of Engineering", presents the
academic experience of model making as a strategy
for the rescue of the historical memory of different
cities of Nicaragua. It was carried out with three
types of methods, these being: analytical-synthetic,
participatory action and oral history, to understand the
history of cities and recreate historical sites relevant to
the community in the models.
More than 200 students were involved in this process
and more than 20 models of cities in the country were
presented. The students were successful in their
research and recreated ancient historical sites that had
social relevance at a certain time in the history of the
cities investigated.
History as a science contributed to two major
substantive functions of the university: research and
university extension. The university extension allows
the student community to get closer to society, and in
this case, the academic experience allowed students to
get involved in the recovery of historical memory and
become aware of its importance in the construction of
the identity of cities and the preservation of culture.
The academic experience presented in the article
demonstrates the importance of history as a science
and its contribution to university extension as an
academic experience, as well as the need to recover
the historical memory of cities for the preservation of
culture and the construction of identity.