Levels of historical awareness and treatment of controversial topics in digital environments: A case study with future Spanish Secondary School teachers
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The aim of the present research is to determine, on the one hand, the levels of historical awareness of future Spanish Secondary School teachers (n = 61) in social networks/virtual environments. On the other hand, it aims to approach the representations of the past-present-future, constructed by future teachers in these spaces, and to interpret the relationships between their levels of historical awareness and their interaction with controversial issues from their own social narratives (n = 169). The study follows a qualitative-deductive approach in order to test the theoretical transferability of Rüsen’s levels of historical consciousness to the specific context of a Spanish university. The results obtained show mostly exemplary and critical levels of historical consciousness, with little variation among the dimensions analyzed (global pandemic by COVID-19 and public health; historical memory, national identities, migratory crises and exclusionary identities; sex-gender identities and exclusionary identities). It can be concluded that working on controversial topics, generated in virtual environments, in teacher training could improve the acquisition of third-order concepts, such as historical awareness, enabling future teachers to successfully address socially relevant issues in the classroom in a cross-cutting and interdisciplinary manner.
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