Unit DIDACTICS OF HISTORY
- Course
- Italian, classical studies and european history
- Study-unit Code
- A001079
- Curriculum
- Letteratura e filologia italiana
- Teacher
- Luca La Rovere
- Teachers
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- Luca La Rovere
- Roberto Cristofoli (Codocenza)
- Chiara Coletti (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 12 ore - Luca La Rovere
- 12 ore (Codocenza) - Roberto Cristofoli
- 12 ore (Codocenza) - Chiara Coletti
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline storiche, filosofiche, antropologiche e sociologiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The teaching of Didactics 'Didactics of History' is divided among three lecturers, with three parts of 12 hours each. Professor Roberto Cristofoli's module will address concepts and issues related to the teaching methods of history and their possible applications. After that, the course will dedicate one lesson to a case study (competency-based teaching and assessment tools for learning), and a final lesson to cinematography as a teaching resource for Roman history. Professor Luca La Rovere's module will cover the methods of history; operational and laboratory didactics; sources for teaching; and playful didactics.
- Reference texts
- For students attending Professor Cristofoli's module, it is sufficient to know the content of the lectures. Those who are unable to attend must contact the Professor, who will provide them with a replacement program with a different and additional bibliography. In Unistudium, students can find the texts presented during the course. For Professor La Rovere's students, the reference text is Andrea Micciché, Igor Pizzirusso, Marcello Ravveduto, Il primo libri di didattica della storia, Einaudi, 2025. The program does not change for non-attending students. Students with disabilities and / or with DSA are asked to consult the University Services on the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa; Students can also get in touch with the responsible contact person, and agree with the Professor tools and strategies aimed at facilitating the learning path.
- Educational objectives
- The main knowledge that Students are expected to acquire will be: - knowledge of the history teaching methodology and of the problems related to both language and content; - knowledge of the documentary sources for reconstructing the past. The main skills that will allow Students to apply their acquired knowledge will be: - Students will be able to evaluate the level of historical knowledge; - Students will acquire an appropriate methodology to analyze and to interpret sources for reconstructing the past; - Students will be able to reconstruct and to explain the events of specific stages of the history of a civilization through effective didactic choices.
- Prerequisites
- To better understand the course content, it is helpful (but not essential) for students to have taken a basic course in Roman History, Modern History, or Contemporary History (undergraduate level).
- Teaching methods
- Lectures that will deal with the methods for the study and for the teaching of history. Students with disabilities and/or DSA may request, in consultation with the Professor, teaching tools useful to facilitate study. For general information, please consult the University Services at https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Departmental Contact Person (Prof. A. Di Pilla). For the 2023/2024 academic year, the University of Perugia has admitted 11 categories of students to distance learning. Students who may be interested are invited to check the possibility of attending lectures in DAD on the website Procedura DAD - Università degli Studi di Perugia (unipg.it)
- Other information
- The course is scheduled to start towards the end of September 2024 (first term). It is warmly recommended to consult the Unistudium page of the course for lesson times, exam texts, teaching materials, etc. Students with disabilities and / or with DSA are asked to consult the University Services on the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa; Students can also get in touch with the responsible contact person (Prof.ssa Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it)
- Learning verification modality
- Final oral examination. The examination is aimed at evaluating knowledge in the field of didactics of history at both general and specific level, with their application to the topics examined during the lectures. Students will take the exam on the three modules with each of the three professors in charge of the course. The answers to the exam questions will determine an evaluation based on argumentative rigor, property of language, exhaustive exposition of the contents, ability to transpose the contents into effective didactic choices. Students with disabilities and / or with DSA can benefit, during the exam, from the inclusive technologies, compensatory tools and dispensative measures provided for by the legislation. Technologies, tools and measures must be requested and agreed with the Professor well in advance of the exam. See the web-page: https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa; Students can also get in touch with the responsible contact person.
- Extended program
- The teaching of "Didactics of History" is divided among three teachers, with three parts of 12 hours each. The first part of the teaching (by Roberto Cristofoli) will address the characteristics and issues of both the methodology of history in general and Roman history in particular (historians and their approach to sources over time; localization and periodization; the main drivers of history; historical revisionism), as well as the teaching of history (competency-based teaching; the learning unit; teaching models and learning styles; the evaluation process; learning platforms; Public History; controversial teaching; counterfactual history). After that, specific cases of possible lessons will be presented, including the use of cinema as a teaching resource for Roman history, able to connect different eras with their respective specifics to be grasped. Professor La Rovere's module will first cover the methods of history: history as a modern discipline; history as a "science"; historians and history; sources and their critique; the times of history. Then, some methods of teaching history will be addressed: the history lab: "thinking historically"; teaching and sources; games and the teaching of history. Sources for teaching: audiovisual, digital, the web space.