Teaching of History
Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher:
SALVATORE ADORNO
Expected Learning Outcomes
The objective of the course is
to activate skills and knowledge for the conduct of disciplinary teaching. At
the end of the course the student must possess the control of the didactic
tools the awareness of the social and educational aims of the history. For this
reason, the course is aimed at providing the student with an in-depth knowledge
of first-order concepts (general substantive concepts, single factual
propositions, historical concepts) and second-order concepts (historical time,
historical change, historical causality, historical significance, historical
relevance , historical interpretation) typical of the historical discipline up
to third-order levels, characterized by the historical awareness capable of
directing the knowledge of the past in relation to the present and the
construction of the future. The Dublin descriptors (Knowledge and
understanding, ability to apply knowledge and understanding, independent
judgement, communication skills, learning ability), remain objectives of a
framework of general competences which will support the specific competences of
the discipline.
Course Structure
The teaching will be carried out through lectures and seminar activities
that will involve students in the critical reading of history teaching texts
and historical sources.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance is not compulsory.
Detailed Course Content
1) the meaning:
History in its becoming as discipline, purpose and usefulness of the
discipline, public use of History, fundamental typologies of today’s
historiography, relation between research and teaching.
2) the method:
time and space; historical sources; inference, comparison, generalization;
archives and traditional sources, archives and digital sources; particularities
and levels of the historical text;
3) the school
rule: analysis of the curricula; the national indications and their
link with the curriculum; the experiences of other European countries; history,
identity and citizenship
4) teaching:
the educational programming of history; transmission-sequential teaching; the
modular learning Unit; the research methodology at school
5) the laboratory: project development; educational
experimentation; use of technologies in experimentation and dissemination of
teaching experiences
Textbook Information
Module A (3 ECTS - Prof.
ADORNO)
For all students
Salvatore Adorno, Luigi Ambrosi, Margherita
Angelini, Pensare storicamente. Didattica,
laboratori, manuali, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2020 (pp. 11-149;
185-275)
One text to be
choosen among:
Pietro Corrao e
Paolo Viola, Introduzione agli studi di storia,
Roma, Donzelli, 2005 (137 p.)
Sergio Luzzatto (a
cura di), Prima lezione di metodo storico, Roma –
Bari, Laterza, 2010 (208 p.)
Piero Bevilacqua, L’utilità della storia. Il passato e gli altri mondi possibili,
Roma, Donzelli, 2007 (175 pp.)
SEMINARS
I
testi a scelta dei moduli A potranno essere studiati in modo seminariale
attraverso analisi e relazioni. Questo lavoro varrà come prova in itinere. La
partecipazione alla prova in itinere esclude i testi dalla prova orale.
Texts chosen for Module A may be studied in seminar
mode through analysis and reports. This job will be evaluated as an
intermediate exam and the texts will be detracted from the final oral exam.
Please remember that in compliance with art 171
L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or
journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.
For further information on sanctions and regulations
concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee
Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione
Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian
Association on Copyright).
All
the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.
