Resumen

LAHERA PRIETO, Deilyn  y  PEREZ PINON, Francisco Alberto. Teaching history in the classroom: a topic to reflect on. Debates hist. [online]. 2021, vol.9, n.1, pp.129-154.  Epub 20-Jun-2022. ISSN 2594-2956.  https://doi.org/10.54167/debates-por-la-historia.v9i1.629.

The significance of teaching history in secondary educational levels is currently being studied by researchers in this science. During the last decade, educational research in teaching history has witnessed overwhelming progress; however, students continue to show disinterest in this subject, requiring thus the implementation of new methodological strategies, which ought to be motivating, taking into consideration the challenges and the impediments faced in this area. Therefore, both the willingness of the learners to educate themselves and the intervention of the teachers are required. There is a need for improving the didactic approach and methodology in the classroom for the teaching of history to be able to make a proposal that promotes the linking of the theoretical contents to practical elements. The appropriate historical training of students demands a change; hence, it is necessary for the current teaching and learning of history the assumption of new challenges that promote the cognitive development of students at any educational levels, encouraging their interest in this subject, their intellectual involvement and therefore, creating a new ideology of learning beyond the previous focus on dates, facts, and events. The present paper is part of larger-scale research work; what is presented here focuses on the theoretical approach assumed as the basis of the research.

Palabras llave : teaching history; historical culture; historical consciousness; historical memory.