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I am delighted to be here today to present
in this associate centre called "Escuelas Pías"
the project that I began 11 years ago.
I published it then with a different publisher and today the UNED is publishing it
I'm very proud because I worked hard on it then
and now I am picking up this project that I still believe in deeply
It is a form of study within the distance methodology the UNED is known for
of law, and in my case, the area of civil law
through games, because it all began when I was teaching
as a tutor in various UNED centres
I didn't have time for everything in class, to cover the whole syllabus
or to reach the students' private spheres
because the sessions seemed too short
although we tried to squeeze everything into two hours
there wasn't any way to cover such a wide syllabus.
I realised after a while that one way to reach my students again
would be through something that already existed
and was part of the UNED's methodology the distance evaluation booklets
From there, I began to think about what I wanted to do
when they arrived at the student's house
if they took it to the waiting room at the doctor's or the dentist, and so on.
What I wanted was to get closer,
and that meant doing something I always did in class
and I analyzed what I do. What did I do mostly?
What I mainly did was games.
I played a lot with them because in this way I could show the institutions
that were essential to understand the rest
that was obviously explained in the books
and so, I decided to implement them.
I slept on it, and decided I was not prepared.
So I needed collaborators
who could do things I can't
like drawing, bringing it to life.
Therefore, I had the ideas, the technique,
I had the knowledge of civil law but I needed to implement it
I contacted a great collaborator
my sister, María del Carmen Bendito
and she got me out of that fix.
We spent almost two years preparing this work
and once it was finished I showed it to some colleagues
the closest to my somewhat extravagant ideas.
especially two who have taken part from the start
and have supported the idea on behalf of the Dept. of Legal Philosophy.
María Eugenia Gallo Santacecilia and
Josu Cristobal de Gregorio
were the ones who agreed to collaborate in their specialist areas.
Subtitles: Patricia Robles Ortiz