Skills of temporary historical consciousness in students of initial teacher training of Chile

Abstract

This article is a first approach to the analysis of the results of an ongoing doctoral research of the author. It responds to the objective of assessing the skills of historical thinking and its teaching, which have the students of initial training at the beginning of the subject of didactics of the history. For this work we consider one of the skills of historical thinking and temporal historical awareness (Santisteban, 2010; Santisteban, González and Pagès, 2010). The following aspects were analyzed: past, present and future; temporary articulators such as change, continuity, quantitative and qualitative markers; and characterization of historical time depending on whether it is presented in a linear and / or simultaneous manner. The methodology to approach the investigation and give an account of its results is mixed with a qualitative predominance. The sample consists of 25 students belonging to three higher education centers in Chile. The instrument for collecting information is narrative, in which the students told how they would teach a historical topic. The results allow us to identify what are the strengths and weaknesses with respect to temporary historical consciousness skills, characterize the way future teachers think about teaching these skills and analyze how history, time and teaching are articulated.