Infrastructures: the Support of Urban Territories Approaches to producing a manual for teaching territorial infrastructures in higher education. Strategies for active lifelong learning

Abstract

Analysis of infrastructures in a city allows its
competitiveness to be determined, and also identifies the degree of interest its citizens have in caring for the environment, the land, and existing natural resources. Including infrastructures in the study of urban problems makes appropriate planning and territorial management possible. Thereby guaranteeing a decent standard of
living with a view to the future. Today the formation of students in higher education requires a new, collective, approach based on a set of teaching techniques that stimulate reasoning, discussion, the elaboration of projects to conduct applicable diagnoses, the testing of hypotheses worked out in the classroom, and conceptual proposals for
solutions. The method of learning designed for the teaching of infrastructures is related to the nine most influential theories of UNESCO, from which those of Piaget and Vygotsky are selected with the idea of educating the student not only to be a passive receiver
of information, but a participant interacting with users of the city, and the creator of new mental structures in a specific contemporary context; social experimentation, multiple intelligences and twenty first century skills will give the students a perspective integrated with the rest of their education. The aim of this article is to show the
process at work through innovative learning strategies that are applicable to the reality and the environment that we inhabit.