In recent decades, a growing awareness of the importance of preserving cultural heritage as a means of promoting sustainable development has been accompanied by a similar re-evaluation of the role of heritage education as a key driver of citizen engagement. The development and implementation of heritage education at all levels, particularly in the context of teacher training, is of vital importance. The aim of this study is to analyse student teachers’ understanding of heritage and its potential as an educational tool, in order to identify measures to enhance teacher training and practice with respect to heritage and heritage education. The research design consists of a comparative study of a non-random sample of 149 trainee teachers undertaking Bachelor’s degrees in Early Childhood Education and Primary Education at the University of Córdoba (Spain). The results reveal a mainly cultural conception of heritage among both groups, based on local material elements, and little sense of the link between heritage and present-day life. The students studying early childhood education were found to display a more specific knowledge of heritage in their answers, while the primary education students showed a greater awareness of identity and values as features of cultural heritage.
Esta investigación analiza las representaciones sociales del alumnado de secundaria sobre las migraciones forzosas. El estudio se llevó a cabo a través de un cuestionario, con dos grupos de estudiantes que seguían una materia con metodología tradicional y enfoque positivista. Se exploraron sus representaciones sociales sobre la migración forzosa como un problema social relevante y sus opiniones respecto a incorporar estas temáticas como estructurantes de la materia de Ciencias Sociales. Los resultados muestran un alumnado favorable a incorporar dichas temáticas, que consideran útiles, a la vez que se detectan representaciones sociales positivas hacia las personas migrantes.
Socio-environmental problems are some of the major concerns of today’s society, and education is an essential area to raise awareness and mould future citizens who will be committed to sustainability. The purpose of this paper is to ascertain how future primary and secondary education teachers in the area of social sciences perceive the socio-environmental problems that affect today’s society, for their subsequent inclusion in the curriculum. To this end, a study was carried out by means of a questionnaire, which showed that trainee primary and secondary teachers have a high consideration of these environmental problems, with hardly any differences noted according to sex or type of degree studied. This perception is positive in terms of the subsequent inclusion of socio-environmental problems in the development of the curriculum by the participating trainee teachers, who largely prefer an autonomous model for curricular implementation.
Las experiencias literarias constituyen un vehículo valido para la enseñanza del espacio geográfico y el tiempo histórico en el aula de Educación Primaria e Infantil. Esta afirmación se pretende validar mediante la realización de un Proyecto de Innovación Educativa llevado a cabo desde el Área de Didáctica de las Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Córdoba y la Universidade da Coruña con el alumnado de las asignaturas de Didáctica de las Ciencias Sociales. Se parte del presupuesto de que literatura infantil puede favorecer un proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje positivo y motivador en el alumnado, a la vez que se amplían conocimientos o se ensayan nuevas destrezas. Entre los resultados derivados de este proyecto se encuentra una relación de textos adecuados para trabajar los aspectos relacionados con el tiempo y el espacio, pero también válidos para acercarse a otras cuestiones sociales, culturales y de género que subyacen en las obras consideradas y que son susceptibles de trabajarse en el aula.
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