Enseñanza de la historia escolar. Un aporte al desarrollo del pensamiento crítico

Abstract

The study is the result of a qualitative research carried out with a group of teachers who teach history classes in secondary education centers in Chile, who investigates in their ideas on what can teaching history teaching to the development of thought critical of students. The information obtained through questionnaires, interviews and curricular analysis shows that teachers consider critical thinking as a continuous process of developing intellectual, social and historical skills. Teachers also believe that critical thinking should teach students to think and act in a reasoned and autonomous way in the face of situations in their social environment. The development of intellectual and social skills can be approached from any discipline, but the school history plays a fundamental role in the formation of critical thinking. Teachers are aware of this reality, but do not always carry out a teaching that shapes historical thinking and helps students to develop a historical awareness, which is the mostrelevant contribution of teaching history to the formation of critical thinking.

Keywords

• critical thinking
• teaching
• historical thinking
• historical consciousness