The historical sciences between research and teaching

Abstract

The essay focuses on the relationship between the "history" discipline and its "didactics”. In particular, for a teaching of innovative history it is essential to proceed towards a learning of the discipline focused on the acquisition of skills, which are able to enhance the historiographic method and the approach for problems. A teaching therefore that, while not renouncing the transmission of historiographic knowledge, the contents of which are considered essential and indispensable, can contribute to the construction of four of the eight key competences defined in the Recommendation of the Council of the European Union in 2006, including digital competence and the ability to learn to learn, social and civic skills and cultural awareness and expression. The article ends with the presentation of a practical scheme concerning the application of the guiding principles set out in the definition of the goals, a starting point that really puts into practice the change of paradigm in the training model of the European citizen, of which the historical sciences they could become one of the fundamental pillars.