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Research and innovation group on Geography and History Teaching

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Date of inception 19 May 2016

Department: Methodology of experimental and social sciences

The group is made up of researchers in social sciences didactics (Geography and History). Our main objective is to diagnose problems in the teaching and learning of Social Sciences and to propose solutions that can contribute to overcoming them, both in formal and non-formal and informal education. To this end, we carry out research into teacher training, developing proposals for improvement; into the skills to be acquired by young people and teachers during compulsory and post-compulsory schooling; into argumentation and critical thinking in the teaching of social sciences; into curricular obstacles in the learning of geographical space and into historiography, identities and the teaching of historical time. The basic principle governing the educational intentions of this group's research is none other than to reveal the mechanisms that organise the functioning of societies, in different places and in past and present times. In this way, a rebellion is proposed against the social hypocrisy that hides under the guise of distinguished culture a content far removed from human concerns. For this goal, it is necessary to find out how the reasoning of pupils and teachers works, which is clearly influenced by the socio-cultural context and emotional and affective factors. For this reason, the proposed research is based on the understanding that the object of the research should facilitate the visibility of the subjects that make citizenship education possible. Consequently, the research activities will be closely linked to proposals for educational innovation and, for this reason, it follows the route of curricular projects that have been consolidated for more than twenty years, as is the case of Gea-Clío. The constitution of local groups of teachers from the different educational levels will allow us to link initial and ongoing training.