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playful way. The participation of students and
teachers has increased; as well as the community
interventions they have carried out. This
community project has extended its scope of
action at national level, reaching other
universities.
Another experience is the one developed
by students and professors of the Faculty of
Communication, as part of the interdisciplinary
edu-communicative project Escaramujo, in
Schools of Integral Formation (EFI) vi . The
actions are aimed at contributing to the
educational and transformative process in
children in primary, secondary and special
schools, with greater emphasis on those in which
they study adolescents with misconduct or who
have committed acts that the law classifies as
crimes.
Some experiences of community work with
children from FLACSO-Cuba.
The Latin American Faculty of Social
Sciences (FLACSO), Cuba program is one of the
15 research centers in the University of Havana.
Founded in 1984, she is a promoter of research
and postgraduate teaching in the area of Social
Development in Latin America and Cuba, with a
multidisciplinary collaboration approach, which
has allowed her to obtain recognition and
prestige at national and international level.
FLACSO is one of the centers of the UH,
which has investigated more in childhood and
adolescence. For several years, faculty members
have addressed the theme in research projects of
local and national relevance, master's and
doctoral theses, workshops in communities and
institutions, scientific debates and specialized
conferences, which complement and make
possible the study and the dissemination of the
advances in these subjects.
In a transversal way, the subject is
approached by the different areas of research that
the institution possesses, in aspects related to
education, health, family, social and community
work, formation of values, social disadvantages,
fostering intergenerational relations, territorial
differences, and more recently in the feeding of
children in school institutions and in the family.
Generally, the practice of these actions is
carried out through extension activities, through
projects and actions in the communities, that
allow to reach greater knowledge about the
contexts of life of children; Identify problems
and conflicts and their possible solutions; To
carry out educational work in the family,
institutional and community environment, among
others. In these experiences, it is committed to
multidisciplinary and interinstitutional work,
with a participatory approach, involving different
institutions and community actors. In a novel
way, they have been incorporated in this process
of building knowledge, techniques and tools of
social cartography and Geographic Information
Systems (GIS), which are widely used
worldwide, with excellent results, and
unfortunately are few employed by the Social
Sciences in Cuba. The following are three
experiences of community actions with children
in different social contexts, developed by
FLACSO-Cuba teachers. The first deals with the
social inclusion of disadvantaged children from
the proposal of an educational program, the
second is the promotion of intergenerational
relationships between children and older adults;
And the third is the identification of
environmental problems in communities, where
GIS techniques and social cartography are used.
The situation of social disadvantage
diminishes the possibilities of participation and
social inclusion of the children who are in it. The