Didáctica de las ciencias sociales.

Abstract

The present text, born from experience in teaching and training of students, tries to give basic guidelines to trainers so that they can base their teaching preparation by relating theory with practice, through the exercise of a new didactics that constitutes a support point in their educational work. The purpose of the text is to systematize the didactic experiences according to a better quality of the teaching-learning of the social sciences and especially of the historical discipline. Bearing in mind the above considerations, it is intended that the text of didactics articulates the different knowledge developed in the formation process with the pedagogical practice as well, that these methodological inductions and activities serve to revise the praxis and, consequently, to implement innovative curricular strategies in the teaching of the social sciences. The training of professionals in education necessarily requires a solid preparation conceptual and methodological for the teaching of the areas of knowledge proper to the component of their specialty, such as history, geography, and democratic education. The social sciences are especially important since they not only contribute to students' better understanding of their social reality, but also provide fundamental elements for their effective transformation. In this sense, didactics is a discipline that contributes to the teacher's preparation in "pedagogical knowledge", so that he or she assumes teaching with a critical and creative sense, in accordance with the needs and demands of the educational change that is taking place in the country and in the world today. Now more than ever, man is faced with a world of complex situations. The The school cannot ignore this reality; its action must be aimed at forming integral persons, with identity and a critical stance before it. A good part of these objectives correspond to the teaching of the social sciences. It is hoped that this text will contribute to enriching the discussion and work of social science teachers and that, by examining it objectively, it will be of great use to them in their didactic work, so that their teachings will translate into a qualitative improvement in the learning of the social sciences in the present times, in which a renovating environment is experienced in education, in pedagogy and in educational research.