Unit TEACHING OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

Course
Primary teacher education
Study-unit Code
GP002975
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Stefania Magliani
Teachers
  • Stefania Magliani
Hours
  • 48 ore - Stefania Magliani
CFU
8
Course Regulation
Coorte 2017
Offered
2018/19
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Discipline storiche
Academic discipline
M-STO/04
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
Teaching history from methods to main issues. Forms, practices, tools and new technologies for the teaching of history
Reference texts
WALTER PANCIERA, Insegnare storia nella scuola primaria e dell'infanzia, Roma, Carocci, 2016

PAOLO BERNARDI, FRANCESCO MONDUCCI, Insegnare storia, guida alla didattica del laboratorio storico, seconda edizione, Torino, UTET, 2012

One of the two volumes can be replaced with:
PAT HOODLESS, Teaching History in Primary Schools, Achieving QTS Series, 2008
Educational objectives
Being able to identify, understand and use documents and sources.

Being able to use historical issues in effective teaching units

Being able to choose subjects.

Being able to cope with problems arising when teaching

Being able to create a stimulating, involving and effective teaching unit.
Prerequisites
not required
Teaching methods
Traditional classes on all subkects of the course
Analisys of documents and sources
Simulation of laboratory activity
Planning of a teaching program
Learning verification modality
The exam consists in a final oral exam in the form of an interview, regarding the issues tackled in the course, aimed at evaluating the knowledge of the issues presented in the course and the reaching of learning results. The interview will also aim at evaluating the ability to communicate and organize the subject matter. The duration will cover the minimum time needed to verify the knowledge of the program and of the exam itself.
Extended program
Methods of historical research
History as a subject: meaning, objectives and aims.
Time and space
Documents and sources
Historical bibliography.
The teaching of history, with special attention to primary school.
Forms and practices of teaching history
Didactic tools
New technologies for studying and teaching history
History in the laboratory
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