Abstract

CARRIL-MERINO, María Teresa; SOLE, Maria Glória Parra Santos  and  SANCHEZ-AGUSTI, María. Historical perspective and emotionality in the training of Portuguese and Spanish History teachers. Rev. Port. de Educação [online]. 2022, vol.35, n.1, pp.287-309.  Epub July 25, 2022. ISSN 0871-9187.  https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.24676.

This article presents the results of a study that aims to assess the ability of future Portuguese and Spanish teachers of History of Secondary Education to adopt a historical perspective. In order to achieve this, a sample of two comparable groups is used, consisting of 52 students from the University of Valladolid (Spain) and 42 students from the University of Minho (Portugal). The study is carried out in parallel with the two groups and uses as a strategy a contradicting activity using child labour in mining in the 19th century, where emotionality is strongly involved. Methodologically, this research approaches the qualitative paradigm through the interpretation of the informants' narratives and their systematization based on four subsequent categories, ranging from an adoption of perspective conditioned by the present to a historical understanding set in the proletarian life conditions. Finally, differences in historical perspective, if any, are explored based on the independent variable of gender. The results of the research show that, in both university groups, most of the Master' s students are grouped at intermediate levels of historical empathy and only a small group of the History teachers in training make fully contextualized explanations. Consequently, it can be considered that the emotional factor, when it violates the value framework of today's society, distances the sample from the patterns of the time and does not favour a complex understanding of the historical context.

Keywords : Historical empathy; History teaching; Teacher training; Secondary Master' s Degree; Child labour..

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