Unit Didactics of History and Civic Education
- Course
- Primary teacher education
- Study-unit Code
- A001987
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Daniele Porena
- Teachers
-
- Daniele Porena
- Leonardo Varasano
- Hours
- 12 ore - Daniele Porena
- 36 ore - Leonardo Varasano
- CFU
- 8
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- 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
Introduction to law. Forms of state and forms of government. Fundamental principles of the
Italian Constitution. - 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.
Italian Constitution. - 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.
Provide students with a high knowledge of the fundamental principles of the Italian Constitution and a knowledge, for essential lines, of the Italian form of government. - 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 - Other information
- nothing
- 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
Introduction to law. Forms of state and forms of government. Democratic principle and popular sovereignty; foundamental rights; principle of equality and welfare state; constitutional protection of labor; local autonomies protection.