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10814 - Teaching of History (1)

Academic Year 2021/2022

                
                        Docente:
                        Carlo De Maria
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        M-STO/04
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            First cycle degree programme (L) in
                            History (cod. 0962)

                                Also valid for
                                
                                    Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
                                    
                                        History and Oriental Studies (cod. 8845)
                                    
                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course students will be able to identify the basics of teaching and educational research according to the main methods and educational planning technologies, and adopting a general approach to participatory and skills-based educational planning, including disciplines relevant to recruitment fields. They will be able to apply the main teaching-learning methods in the secondary school, including active learning and transmedia, in a perspective of educational experimentation geared to analysis of techniques and learning technologies in the scholastic field. They will be familiar with digital technologies, media education and e-learning; they will have learnt the dynamics of education and social media; they will be able to evaluate skills and scholastic achievement (evaluation of the product, the process, and the system).

Course contents

The course of "Didactics of History" aims to provide the necessary educational and disciplinary knowledge. Not only and not so much the acquisition of advanced knowledge inherent to history, but the effective didactic transposition of teaching contents. And therefore: in-depth theoretical and methodological knowledge related to teaching design; preparation of appropriate educational contexts and tools; evaluation of the learning outcomes and, more generally, of the effectiveness of the didactic intervention.

Main phases of the course:

1. The cultural transmission of historical knowledge. Periodizations, interpretations, ideas and passions.

2. History and civic culture. History as a critical tool for understanding the present.

3. History workshops: some practical proposals. The transfer of content into effective educational actions.

4. Biographies, paths and networks. The teaching of history through the interweaving of biographies and places.

5. Didactics in the archives and in the libraries. From the document to the historical narration.

6. Historical communication and public history. New ideas for digital teaching in history.

Readings/Bibliography

Readings for students who will attend the lectures

Students must study 3 books (according to the following guidelines) and 3 articles from the section "Classroom teaching and public history experiences":

Textbook (obligatory):

Walter Panciera, Andrea Zannini, Didattica della storia. Manuale per la formazione degli insegnanti, 3. ed. aggiornata, Firenze-Milano, Le Monnier Università-Mondadori Education, 2013

Methodology and historiography (1 book at the choice of the student):

Laura Di Fiore, Marco Meriggi, World History. Le nuove rotte della storia, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2019 (2011)

Agostino Giovagnoli, Storia e globalizzazione, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2021 (2003)

Charles H. Parker, Relazioni globali nell’età moderna, 1400-1800, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012

Carlo De Maria, Una famiglia anarchica. La vita dei Berneri tra affetti, impegno ed esilio nell'Europa del Novecento, Viella, Roma 2019

Carlo De Maria, Andrea Costa e l'Italia liberale. Società, politica e istituzioni tra dimensione locale ed europea, Bologna University Press, Bologna 2021 (PDF open access)

Mariuccia Salvati, Camillo Pellizzi. Un intellettuale nell'Europa del Novecento, Il Mulino, Bologna 2021

Historical communication, didactic and public history (1 book at the choice of the student):

Eloisa Betti, Carlo De Maria (a cura di), Biografie, percorsi e networks nell'Età contemporanea. Un approccio transnazionale tra ricerca, didattica e Public History, Roma, Bradypus, 2018 (PDF open access)

Alberto Cavaglion, La Resistenza spiegata a mia figlia, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2015 (prima edizione: Napoli, L'ancora del Mediterraneo, 2005)

Giorgio Cella, Storia e geopolitica della crisi ucraina. Dalla Rus' di Kiev a oggi, Roma, Carocci, 2021

Luca Gorgolini (a cura di), Media digitali e disinformazione: politica, giornalismo, social network e conflitti armati, Bologna, Bologna University Press, 2022

Luca Jourdan, Karin Pallaver, Parlare d'Africa. 50 parole chiave, Roma, Carocci, 2021

Federico Paolini, Breve storia dell'ambiente nel Novecento, Roma, Carocci, 2021

Carlo Tosco, I beni culturali. Storia, tutela e valorizzazione, Bologna, il Mulino, 2014

Vittorio Vidotto, Emilio Gentile, Simona Colarizi, Giovanni De Luna, Storia d’Italia in 100 foto, immagini a cura di M. Fugenzi, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2019 (2017)

Gianni Volpi, I film da vedere a vent'anni. Una filmografia selettiva, con le schede per temi e generi di Livio Marchese, Roma, Edizioni dell'Asino, 2014

Sam Wineburg, Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone), Chicago-London, University of Chicago Press, 2018

Classroom teaching and public history experiences

3 articles at the choice of the student from the following two journals:

"Novecento.org": http://www.novecento.org/category/didattica-in-classe/

"Clionet": http://rivista.clionet.it/archivio

Readings for non-attending students

Students must study 4 books (the textbooks, plus 2 books at their choice, according to the following guidelines) and 3 articles from the section "Classroom teaching and public history experiences":

Textbooks (both):

Walter Panciera, Andrea Zannini, Didattica della storia. Manuale per la formazione degli insegnanti, 3. ed. aggiornata, Firenze-Milano, Le Monnier Università-Mondadori Education, 2013

Salvatore Adorno, Luigi Ambrosi, Margherita Angelini (a cura di), Pensare storicamente. Didattica, laboratori, manuali, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2020