Students, teachers, researchers and the public, in general, have a new tool at their disposal to learn about facts, figures and processes of the past with the book Ciego de Ávila Provincial Historical Synthesis, a text that contributes to the improvement of the teaching of local history, applied at all educational levels.

The important document, released at the end of 2021 in PDF format and app for computers, is a historiographical work of excellence. "The main aspect that has been prepared on local history, where the bases for understanding the historical roots of the Ciego de Ávila identity”, the Master of Science (MSc) Ángel Cabrera Sánchez, coordinator of the compilation together with the also MSc Sixto Espinosa Dorta, told Invasor.

According to the Historian of the City of Ciego de Ávila, among the benefits of the research, we can find that it was written in a language that is easy to understand for readers of all ages, but without giving up consolidated scientific knowledge.

In this sense, he added that, although amenity was pursued in its writing, it also has a comprehensive referential apparatus, in the order of some 467 notes and references, for those who wish to delve deeper into a certain topic.

“The book will make it possible to gain uniformity in the teaching of local history from primary to higher education, in order to know the most representative facts and figures, as well as eliminating the dispersion in access to information for teachers to prepare their classes,” Cabrera Sánchez said.

In this regard, he commented that it is currently used as a basic bibliography in the recently improved History of Cuba program, which is taught in all careers at the University of Ciego de Ávila Máximo Gómez Báez (UNICA). While it was also socialized in the Provincial Directorate of Education for its generalization in Ciego de Ávila educational centers.

“Having this text available represents the realization of an old dream of history teachers. It is already found in all the educational institutions of the territory, we have appreciated its usefulness in the methodological preparations for working with the students”, Rewald Quintero Alonso, president of the Provincial Commission of History in the Provincial Directorate of Education, commented.

He added that its importance will be palpable based on the results of the first controls and other evaluations, but, based on exchanges with teachers and methodological assistance visits to some municipalities, they have appreciated a positive impact on the use of the text.

With this 401-page work, an approach is given to the forging process of the Cuban nation from the most remote roots of the aborigines until the year 2011.

The synthesis…, belonging to the Annals Collection of the History Editor, was the fruit of the work of a group of 22 authors who work in institutions such as the Provincial Historical Archive Brigadier José Ambrosio Gómez Cardoso, the University of Ciego de Ávila Máximo Gómez Báez ( UNICA), the Territorial Delegation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment and the Provincial Directorate of Cultural Heritage.

As a precedent for the study, Cabrera Sánchez speaks, there is the similar effort made between 1989 and 1995, in which 247 people participated and reached more than 4,000 pages. This book synthesizes that text and updates it with part of the most representative of the national and regional historiographical production.

The coordinator of the text pointed out that there is a commitment to print it as soon as the material situation in the country improves, but all those who wish to access the document can copy it free of charge in digital format at the Brigadier José Ambrosio Gómez Cardoso Provincial Historical Archive.