Teaching history to face the world today Socially-conscious approaches, activity proposals and historical thinking competencies

• Other Authors: Gómez Carrasco, Cosme J. (Editor), Monteagudo Fernández, José (Editor), Moreno Vera, Juan Ramón (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2023
• Subjects: Curriculum planning & development; Development studies; General & world history; Teaching skills & techniques; Teaching of a specific subject; Educational equipment & technology, computer-aided learning (CAL); Educational: General studies / study skills general; activity; approaches; Carrasco; competencies; conscious; Cosme; Curriculum design; face; Fernández; Gomez; historical; history; HistoryLab; José; Juan; Monteagudo; Moreno; proposals; Ramón; Socially; Teaching; Teaching methodology; thinking; today; Vera
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This book develops the challenges that history teaching must face as a curricular subject at the beginning of the 21st century. These challenges are related, both to new epistemological approaches in history education, and also to the development of new activities, active-learning methodologies, and historical thinking competencies. In terms of new approaches, this book suggests activities regarding invisible topics such as social and economic impacts in history, inequalities, church and science, gender equality, power and violence, prosecuted by justice, peasantry and the urban world, family and daily life, terror or travelers and their cross-currents. Regarding the activities, the incidence of new technologies in social relations and the effects of globalization is very remarkable for our students. The authors highlight the need for changes in teaching and learning history.