TEACHING METHODS IN HISTORY - WORKSHOP

The Workshops, together with formative and orientation Internships, concur to provide the students with helpful knowledge to access the job market. They are based on a participatory and interactive teaching, aiming at strengthening the students' transferable skills: for this reason attendance is strongly recommended. For the same reason the ideal number of participants is limited to 20-25 people. Students must contact the professors concerning admission to the Worskhop befor the beginning of the semester. The Workshops do not require a final exam but the achievement of a qualification ('idoneità', corresponding to 3 credits) which will be granted at the end of the course on the basis of the activity carried out by the students. The students who have attended the course but did not obtain the qualification can, under exceptional circumstances, obtain it in subsequent exam sessions by making a request to the professor, who will decide on a case by case basis.

The History Didactics Laboratory, structured for students of the master's degree course in History from the Middle Ages to the contemporary age, intends to guide the students in the world of teaching a discipline that is central in the scholastic context for the possibility of declining diversified methods and strategies, of creating interdisciplinary connections, of relating to the present and of dealing with stories in a global and multicultural context, of working on the key competences identified at national and European level for the training of a participant citizen, in able to use critical tools and to keep up-to-date throughout their life.
Being a history teacher is also a considerable challenge in the face of the continuous changes in which the new generations are immersed and which are reflected in the transformations of teaching models, of the relationship that is created in the classroom, of the demand for knowledge that knows how to question the problems of 'today.
The aim of the course, therefore, is to bring the students to measure themselves with the point of view of the teacher and at the same time to experience the distance and the difference of that of students who with their characteristics and contingencies refer to the need for a continuous focus of the didactic action. Far from reiterating a didactic end in itself that objectifies and unifies, the teacher is called to relate to the personal, socio-cultural-economic and gender-related aspects, with diversity declined in all its forms. From this point of view, History, understood as the "science of the different" (Marc Bloch) is in itself the pivotal approach to the polyphonicity of the lived in constant connection with the time line of the world.
Faced with and within complexity, the history teacher has the fundamental task of knowing how to use the times, methods and tools of the discipline to mediate that complexity without making it superficial and mechanical. Here the methodological questions occupy a crucial role in connection with research. The didactic choices, pondered and developed starting from the needs of students and in view of the achievement of skills, do not simply represent a question of style or a modernist tinsel, but the precipitate of a critical reflection that combines history, its teaching , the world of education and that of pupils.
Another objective of the course is therefore to call the students to experiment and experiment, measuring themselves with different situations and methods, elaborating proposals and discussing them in a community of peers.

The aim of the workshop is to introduce students to the major problems, methods and the most up-to-date reflections concerning teaching methods for history in school

No specific prerequisites are required to attend the course.

The workshop offers an overview of the major questions concerning the teaching of history in school. Topics range from the outilines of historical knowledge, to the sites and tools of research, to tools of teaching methods: texts, images, audiovisual, the digital world.

As a general background:

- Walter Panciera, Andrea Zannini, Didattica della Storia. Manuale per la formazione degli insegnanti, Le Monnier Università, Mondadori Education, Firenze 2013 (terza edizione aggiornata)
- Elio Monducci (a cura di), Insegnare storia. Il laboratorio storico e altre pratiche attive, UTET Università, Torino 2018 (terza edizione).

A specific bibliography will be announced before the beginning of classes.

The History Teaching Methods Workshop does not include a final exam.
The evaluation will be based on teacher-student interactions and student participation during the course and as part of group work.

The course is based on lectures, discussions of texts and other materials, simulation, planning of teachig units.

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development