Historical Consciousness and Interest in History Among Colombian and Spanish Secondary School Students

Autor: Nilson Javier Ibagón Martín, Pedro Miralles Martínez
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa, Vol 24, Pp 1-14 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1607-4041
DOI: 10.24320/redie.2022.24.e18.3938
Popis: This paper presents the results of a comparative study that seeks to identify conceptions of the importance of four types of formal content in history teaching (periods of history, cross-cutting themes in history, history of places, and national historical processes) among a group of Colombian (M=764) and Spanish (N=648) students in the last year of compulsory education in the cities of Bogotá and Murcia, respectively. A descriptive approach was followed based on a closed-ended questionnaire relating to historical consciousness, with item responses measured on a Likert scale. The results support the idea that the interest shown by students in the formal content proposed is an indicator that calls for a critical review of the structure and organization of history curricula in the two contexts studied.
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