Learning to teach social scien-ces with methods of inquiry. Case studies in the teacher training program

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show an innovative experience in Primary Teacher training for the acquisition of programming skills and planning interactive activities for teaching social sciences. This proposal was launched in the subject Didactic methodology for teaching social sciences, offered in 3rd year of Primary Education. This course had an impact on the transformation of society has undergone in recent years requires social science teachers to a reframing training to enable them to meet some new learning environments. Teaching methods should have as its main purpose the student to discover and assimilate the environment in which it lives, given the complexity of social facts in all their meaning and nuances. The case study method to develop these premises, since it brings a reality to a group of learners. In a series of practical classes students had to raise educational activities on a specific topic of social sciences in the Primary classroom. Students should propose activities which would analyze the case, identify the problems, find information, compare ideas and defend them in a debate to take the appropriate decisions. Students appreciated the usefulness of this method when proposals lead to classroom teaching in which scientific knowledge school become socially useful knowledge.

Keywords

• métodos de indagación
• estudios de caso
• didáctica de las ciencias sociales
• formación del profesorado
• aprender a enseñar
• educación primaria