The group is made up of researchers in social sciences didactics (Geography and History). Our main objective is to diagnose problems in the teaching and learning of Social Sciences and to propose solutions that can contribute to overcoming them, both in formal and non-formal and informal education. To this end, we carry out research into teacher training, developing proposals for improvement; into the skills to be acquired by young people and teachers during compulsory and post-compulsory schooling; into argumentation and critical thinking in the teaching of social sciences; into curricular obstacles in the learning of geographical space and into historiography, identities and the teaching of historical time.
The basic principle governing the educational intentions of this group's research is none other than to reveal the mechanisms that organise the functioning of societies, in different places and in past and present times. In this way, a rebellion is proposed against the social hypocrisy that hides under the guise of distinguished culture a content far removed from human concerns. For this goal, it is necessary to find out how the reasoning of pupils and teachers works, which is clearly influenced by the socio-cultural context and emotional and affective factors. For this reason, the proposed research is based on the understanding that the object of the research should facilitate the visibility of the subjects that make citizenship education possible. Consequently, the research activities will be closely linked to proposals for educational innovation and, for this reason, it follows the route of curricular projects that have been consolidated for more than twenty years, as is the case of Gea-Clío. The constitution of local groups of teachers from the different educational levels will allow us to link initial and ongoing training.
- Cohering educational research with didactic innovation in order to foster a critical spirit and to value teaching contributions in teaching methods and social representations in the achievement of a conscious citizenship.
- To develop educational research that helps to formulate a didactic methodology that favours learning about social problems.
- To diagnose problems in the teaching and learning of Social Sciences and to propose resources and methodologies that allow for the integral and social development of the individual.
- Social representations and identities (gender, nationhood and interculturality)
Identities (individual and collective) are very complex to define. On the one hand, they represent "a set of traits of an individual or a group that characterises them in relation to others", but also "a person's awareness of being him/herself and different from others". In this sense, this line of research insists on school learning as a framework that shapes identities and social representations, beyond the common sense socially reproduced and expressed in the media. To this end, it takes into account the historical-cultural dimension of school disciplines and the tendency to naturalise certain contents, practices and uses that hinder innovation.
- La formación docente desde la investigación académica
Teacher training is an essential part of any education system. The continuous improvement of teacher training processes and experiences is essential if teachers are to become reflective educators who are aware of the role that learning in the social sciences can play in the exercise of democratic citizenship by students. This line of research is concerned with investigating the identity of teachers in their historical contexts, initial and in-service training, and gender and coeducation in teacher education.
- Socio-environmental education and heritage education: from the local to the global
Understanding complex social and environmental problems requires an interdisciplinary approach to the study of geography, history and art history, integrating heritage and sustainability perspectives. This also implies an approach to the culture of places in order to assess the reasons for the selection and conservation of certain remains or environments which, in one way or another, may be present in the school environment (museums, archaeological sites, natural parks, monuments, celebrations or festivities, etc.). The search for interdisciplinarity addresses transversal concepts such as sustainability.
- Curricular materials and teaching methodologies
Textbooks, digital technological resources, field work, complemented with different teaching methodologies, are tools and strategies that are used for different purposes in school activities. These same resources can be transformed into documentary sources for research in Didactics of Social Sciences. In this line of work, we develop activities related to the analysis of curricular materials, legal regulations, external tests, curricular innovation proposals, especially those concerning curricular projects. Along with this, special attention is paid to the study of educational technology and the didactics of the social sciences, paying attention to the teaching methodology used, the resources present in the classroom and the pedagogies and hidden meanings inserted in this reality of the 21st century.
- CAMPO PAIS, BENITO
- Doctorand.
- COLOMER RUBIO, JUAN CARLOS
- Alumn.-Servei de Formacio Permanent
- Coordinador/a de Programa de Doctorat
- GARCIA MONTEAGUDO, DIEGO
- Alumn.-Servei de Formacio Permanent
- MORALES HERNANDEZ, ANTONIO JOSE
- PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A
- MOROTE SEGUIDO, ALVARO FRANCISCO
- PDI-Titular d'Universitat
- RAUSELL GUILLOT, HELENA
- PDI-Prof. Permanent Laboral Ppl
- SAIZ SERRANO, JORGE
- PDI-Titular d'Universitat
- BANDERAS NAVARRO, NESTOR
- Alumn.-Servei de Formacio Permanent
- CALZADO ALDARIA, ANTONIO
- PDI-Ajudant Doctor/A
Partners
- Nubia Moreno Lache - Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (Colombia)
- Ivaine María Tonini - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do sul (Brasil)
- Sérgio Claudino Loureiro - Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território (Portugal)
- Fabián Araya Palacios - Universidad de la Serena (Chile)
Work team
- Nancy Palacios Mena - Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
- ExpandirCOLOMER RUBIO, JUAN CARLOSAlumn.-Servei de Formacio PermanentCoordinador/a de Programa de Doctorat
- ExpandirGARCIA MONTEAGUDO, DIEGOAlumn.-Servei de Formacio Permanent
- ExpandirMOROTE SEGUIDO, ALVARO FRANCISCOPDI-Titular d'Universitat
- ExpandirRAUSELL GUILLOT, HELENAPDI-Prof. Permanent Laboral Ppl
- ExpandirSAIZ SERRANO, JORGEPDI-Titular d'Universitat
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