22910016 - STORIA E DIDATTICA DELLA STORIA

The course aims to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of the main modes of learning history: the traditional and the interactive.


Knowledge and understanding:
- Identify the epistemological status of the discipline and the teaching methods for its teaching
Applying knowledge and understanding:
- Understanding of traditional and interactive teaching, especially of the modular unit and the history laboratory.
Making judgements:
- Understanding of merits and limitations of the different ways of teaching history.
Communication skills:
- Their refinement through the presentation to the classmates of an history lab.
Learning skills:
- Their refinement through the costruction in class of an history lab.
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Programme

The course aims to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of the two main ways of learning History: the frontal one and
the interactive. The program will consist of the following points:1) the subject of the discipline;2) historiographical schools;3) sources and methods;4) the evolution of the teaching of history in the Italian school; 5) teacher training and history teaching in primary school;6) the types of history teaching in the primary school;7) the laboratory.

Core Documentation

For those who must gain 7 to 8 credits:
Lando Landi, Insegnare la storia ai bambini, Carocci, 2006
Price Simon e Thonemann Peter, In principio fu Troia. L'Europa nel mondo antico, Laterza, 2014
Luca Tedesco, Didattica della storia. Un manuale per i futuri insegnanti della scuola primaria e dell’infanzia, Mondadori-Le Monnier, 2019

For those who must gain 4 to 6 credits:
Price Simon e Thonemann Peter, In principio fu Troia. L'Europa nel mondo antico, Laterza, 2014
Luca Tedesco, Didattica della storia. Un manuale per i futuri insegnanti della scuola primaria e dell’infanzia, Mondadori-Le Monnier, 2019

For those who must gain 1 to 3 credits:
Luca Tedesco, Didattica della storia. Un manuale per i futuri insegnanti della scuola primaria e dell’infanzia, Mondadori-Le Monnier, 2019.

Those who have to take the entire program can replace Landi's volume or the first three chapters of my manual "Didactics of History" with one of the following works:
1) Review of the following volume: Ricolfi and Mastrocola, The scholastic damage. The progressive school as a machine of inequality, 2021;
2) Review of the following volume: G. Ferroni, A school for the future, 2021;
3) Review of the following volume: S. Cassese, Intellettuali, 2021;
4) Review of the following volume: M.Recalcati, The lesson time, 2014 or 2021;
5) Construction of a laboratory.

The review will be sent to my institutional email address at the latest ten days before the exam session for which you will enroll.

Type of delivery of the course

The teaching will be held mainly in person.

Attendance

Attendance not compulsory

Type of evaluation

The exam will be written, in person, with open-ended questions. A question will be provided for each text to be taken for examination, to which the candidate must answer within thirty minutes.