
Research and Innovation in Social Science Teaching
Code: 102041Credits: 6
| Degree programme | Type | Course |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Education | OP | 4 |
Contact lecturer
- Name :
- Antoni Santisteban Fernandez
- Email :
- antoni.santisteban@uab.cat
Teaching staff
- Myriam Gonzalez Sanz
- Nuria Aris Redo
Group languages
You can consult this information at the end of the document.
Prerequisites
None. However, it is recommended to have passed two subjects: Teaching and Learning Natural, Social and Cultural World; and Social Studies Education.
Objectives
The main purpose of the subject is to deepen the relationship between educational innovation and research, especially in the teaching and learning of the social sciences.L
-Analyze and assess the situation of research and innovation in teaching social sciences in primary education.
-Use research results and innovation projects to make decisions about teaching and learning in the social sciences.
-Realise small research by formulating the problem, the assumptions, the objectives and the methodology, and theoretically situate the research problem.
- Prepare research reports and share the results.
-To reflect on the role of research and innovation in the professional development of teachers.
Learning outcomes
- Demonstrate that attitudes regarding gender equality are identified, practiced and defended.
- Using the resources of the environment in order to design teaching and learning activities that develop autonomy and cooperative work in primary school pupils.
- Analyse teaching sequences that favour the construction of social discourse to promote the values of a critical and democratic population.
- Assessing the value of the contributions made by the teaching of history, geography and other social sciences to educational innovation.
- Assessing the value of the contributions to educational innovation made by work done in projects to address the study of society based on relevant social problems.
- Conducting research in primary schools on social science teaching and learning.
- Knowing how to foster communication, personal interaction and social skills when designing a didactic sequence.
- Know and use images and simulation as resources for teaching and learning social sciences.
- Interpreting existing research and innovation by applying information and communication technologies to the teaching of the social sciences in primary education.
- Design models of didactic sequences related to social, critical and creative thinking in primary schooling.
- Produce models of didactic sequences related to historical, geographical and social thought in primary education in observance of a critical paradigm.
- Analyse the contributions of the teaching of history, geography and other social sciences to solving important social problems and understanding the society in which we live.
- Demonstrate that attitudes regarding human rights as knowledge and tools for coexistence are identified, practiced and defended.
- Using the resources of the environment in order to design teaching and learning activities.
- Analyse history, geography and social sciences from their contributions to the understanding of our society and the solution of social problems.
- Produce models of didactic sequences for primary education, especially those that can facilitate understanding of democratic pluralism, cultural diversity and the development of critical thinking.
- Propose new methods or well-founded alternative solutions.
- Weigh up the risks and opportunities of both one's own and other people's proposals for improvement.
- Critically analyse the principles, values and procedures that govern the exercise of the profession.
- Weigh up the impact of any long- or short-term difficulty, harm or discrimination that could be caused to certain persons or groups by the actions or projects.
Contents
- Research and innovation in social science didactics: basic concepts.
1.1. Didactic research and triangle: students and learning processes, school knowledge and educational proposals, and teachers and teaching processes.
1.2. Phases and implications of educational research.
1.3. The relationship between teachers, research and innovation. - Current lines of research in the teaching and learning of the social sciences.
- The methodology of research in didactics of the social sciences, qualitative research in the school and the instruments of research in didactics of the social sciences.
- Educational innovation: between media narratives and evidence. Do research to innovate, and innovate from research.
Learning activities and methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Presentation and analysis of the fundamental lines of research on teaching and learning of social studies in primary education. Conducting a debate. | 45 | 1.8 | 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20 |
| Reading and writing text commentaries on social studies education research and innovation. | 10 | 0.4 | 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20 |
| Text analysis research and innovation in social studies education, individual or group level, and final examination. | 30 | 1.2 | 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
| Making a small research. Presentation of results and writing an article. | 60 | 2.4 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
| Valoration of the implications of innovation and research in DCS through a classroom diary | 5 | 0.2 | 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 12, 13, 15, 19, 20 |
The protagonist in the teaching-learning process is always the student. It is under this premise that this subject methodology has been planned.
We are going to carry out different types of activities to ensure the acquisition of knowledge:
- Presentation of the main research lines on social studies education.
- Studies of social studies education research oriented to innovation.
- Readings and text commentaries, individual and group level, and a assesment activity.
- Presentation and discussion of research group projects, and monitoring of individual or group work on small research planning.
- Doing a small research to support innovation social studies primary classroom, and writing a scientific article.
- Creating a learning portfolio.
Assessment
Continuous assessment activities
| Title | Weight | Hours | ECTS | Learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design of innovative proposals based on conceptual models (I) | 25% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 |
| Dissemination and dissemination of research results in different communication formats (I+G) | 20% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 19 |
| Papers analysis (I) | 10% | 0 | 0 | 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 12, 15, 19 |
| Conducting an educational research in SSE (G) | 30% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 |
| Analysis of the changes and continuities of the representations themselves and the implications of rececrca and innovation through a classroom diary (I) | 15% | 0 | 0 | 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 18, 19, 20 |
The evaluation of this subject is formative and training.
The evaluation is the process that is established to assess the achievement of the learning results from the evidences that are defined in the guide of the subject. The evaluation of the subject will be carried out throughout the academic year through the proposed activities (the program delivered at the beginning of the subject will specify the activities and deliveries to be carried out).
ORAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
To pass this subject, the student must show, in the activities proposed to him, a good general communicative competence, both orally and in writing, and a good command of the vehicular language or languages that appear in the teaching guide. This competition is a requirement. In all the activities (individual and group), therefore, linguistic correctness, writing and formal aspects of presentation will be taken into account. Students must be able to express themselves fluently and correctly and must show a high degree of understanding of academic texts. An activity can be returned (not evaluated) or suspended if the teacher considers that it does not meet these requirements.
AI, COPY AND PLAGIARISM
In this course, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted as an integral part of the assignment, provided that the final result reflects a significant contribution from the student in their analysis and personal reflection. Students must clearly identify which components were generated with this technology, specify the tools used, and include a critical reflection on how they influenced the process and the final outcome of the assignment. Lack of transparency in the use of AI will be considered a breach of academic honesty and may result in a penalty in the assignment grade, or more severe sanctions in serious cases. The sanction will be decided specifically for each case.
Copying and plagiarism are intellectual robberies and therefore constitute a crime that will be sanctioned with the note “zero”. In the case of copying between two students, if it is not possible to know who has copied who, the sanction will be applied to both students. The use of artificial intelligence fraudulently implies that the evaluation activity is considered suspended with a 0.
ONSITE
Attendance to the face-to-face classes of the subject is mandatory at 80%, in order to be able to carry out the continuous evaluation.
EVALUATION ACTIVITIES
The activities that will be evaluated as evidence of evaluation have to do with conceptualization, research, synthesis and communication, and application in innovation. It is necessary to pass all of them in order to pass the subject: numerical averages will not be applied on those activities that have not been passed, since we understand that all the teaching skills associated with these processes must be achieved.
This subject provides for the single assessment. The single assessment must be requested within the deadlines and the mechanism that the Faculty of Education Sciences has foreseen. It maintains the same approach as continuous assessment, although the nature of single assessment does not facilitate the regulatory function of evaluation. In this case, it will also be necessary to achieve all the competences associated with the research, synthesis-communication and application processes in innovation. The same activities are requested, in individual format, and their delivery will be in written, material and oral format on 14/12.
The final synthesis test:
A final summary test is allowed for repeat students. This test will be requested from the faculty at the beginning of the course. It will consist of the submission of an assignment (to be specified) and an exam.
ASSESSMENT CALENDAR
- Continuous evaluation:
- 19/10 - first phase of delivery of research.
- 09/11 - innovative proposals based on conceptual models.
- 30/11 and 14/12 - dissemination and dissemination of research results in different communication formats.
- 14/12 – Final submission of the research.
- Dietary and reading analysis will be delivered with a margin of between 0 and 14 days after class activity.
- Recovery: 21/12. The recovery test will depend on the competence field to be recovered.
- Single assessment:
- Delivery: 14/12
- Recovery: 21/12. The recovery test will depend on the competence field to be recovered.
Bibliography
Apple, M. (2018). ¿Puede la educación cambiar la sociedad? LOM Ediciones.
Avila, R., Rivero, P., Domínguez, P. (2010). Metodología de investigación en Didáctica de las Ciencias Sociales. AUPDCS-Institución Fernando el Católico.
Delamont, S. (ed.) (2013). Handbook of qualitative research in education. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Felices de la Fuente, M. del M., Martínez Rodríguez, R., y Martínez Medina, R. (2018). Investigación e Innovación en Didáctica de las Ciencias Sociales. Aportes y nuevas perspectivas. REIDICS. Revista De Investigación En Didáctica De Las Ciencias Sociales, (3), 119-138. https://doi.org/10.17398/2531-0968.03.119.
González Valencia, G. A., y Santisteban Fernández, A. (2014). Una mirada a la investigación en didáctica de las ciencias sociales. Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Educativos, 10(1), 7-17.
Jara, M.A. y Santisteban , A. (2018). Los retos de futuro en la enseñanza de las ciencias sociales, la historia y la geografía. En M.A. Jara y A. Santisteban (coords). Contribuciones de Joan Pagès al desarrollo de la didáctica de les ciencias sociales, la historia y la geografía en Iberoamérica. Universidad Nacional del Comanche y Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona .
Levstik, L. y Tyson, C.A. (eds.) (2008). Handbook of Research in Social Studies Education. Routledge, New York/London.
Martínez Medina, R., García-Morís, R., García Ruiz, C.R. (eds.) (2017). Investigación en Didáctica de las Ciencias Sociales. Retos, preguntas y líneas de investigación. AUPDCS.
Ortega Sánchez, D. (2023). ¿Cómo investigar en Didáctica de las Ciencias Sociales? Fundamentos metodológicos, técnicas e instrumentos de investigación. Octaedro.
Pagès,J. y Santisteban, A. (2011). La investigación sobre la enseñanza y el aprendizaje en la educación primaria. En Santisteban, A. y Pagès, J. (coords.). Didáctica del Conocimiento del Medio Social y Cultural. Síntesis, p. 105-121.
Pagès, J. (2004). La investigación en didáctica de la historia. Educación XX1, 7, p. 63-83.
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Journals: Enseñanza de las Ciencias Sociales / REIDICS / Iber i revistes del Consorci INDEX210
Software
-Use of the computer software necessary for the collection, analysis and communication of research data, and innovation proposals.
Course groups and languages
The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE
| Type of teaching | Group | Language | Semester | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (TE) Theory | 20 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |