This document discusses contextualization and localization in education. It defines contextualization as relating the curriculum to students' particular settings and situations to make competencies relevant. Localization is relating learning content to local information and materials from students' communities. The document cites legal bases that support these concepts and notes they allow curriculum flexibility for schools. Examples are discussed to illustrate contextualization, and it is stressed that localization is not just about localizing materials but also local information and students' frames of reference.