Teaching history in primary and secondary schools

ISBN: 9782897995461

What can be taught in the history classroom? What epistemological, educational and psycho-pedagogical foundations underpin contemporary trends in history teaching? What paths can teachers take to teach history in a way that is consistent with these orientations? How do you design a teaching sequence? What tools are available and how can they be used? How can students' learning, and in particular their skills, be assessed? How do you plan what to teach? How to teach concepts? How can the competency-based approach to history be designed and implemented? How do you plan teaching for the school year? How can we teach history by developing investigative practices?

Since the 1990s, work on historical thinking and the spread of the competency-based approach, in particular, have led those responsible for teaching history around the world to revisit the aims and methods of teaching this school discipline.

The aim of this book is to provide an update on these new directions in history teaching, and to present teachers at both primary and secondary level with practical courses of action in line with the state of the art in history didactics and the curricula in force in the main French-speaking education systems. Future primary and secondary school teachers will find resources to develop their professional skills, and their trainers will find support for their teaching.