Social Sciences, Geography and History Teaching Based on Research

Abstract

Innovation accompanies us in our daily lives contributing to personal growth and improving social participation. Considering the most important epistemological traditions of teaching-learning processes and teaching models, research-based teaching model is a relevant approach to introduce innovative didactic proposals. Selection, organization, and sequencing of school knowledge in the teaching of social sciences, geography and history, and the construction of meaningful school knowledge connected with the social reality implies considering relevant socio-environmental issues, teacher professional knowledge, student daily knowledge, and metadisciplinarity. As a pedagogical base, in this chapter, the authors focus on epistemological traditions of social sciences education, keys for the design of proposal from a research-based approach, and finally, they focus on alternatives for evaluation of students and the importance of action-research for systematization of decision making and professional development.