Representaciones sobre la enseñanza de la historia: de la universidad a la escuela secundaria

Abstract

This article aims to present the progress made in a university extension project that finished last year. We propose to bring the university to secondary school from aspecific topic which hasthe objective to know the students’ representations abouthistory teaching and itsrole in the construction of cultural identities.From our double work of teachers and teacher trainers we are interested in promoting concrete tools, taking in concernour social responsibility as university teachers to facethe problems presented by thepresent timesand the need to continue reflecting about the reasons to teach history and how.

Keywords

• university extension
• secondary school
• history teaching
• representations