Presentation of the DOSSIER: Research in history teaching: between current stakes and urgent challenges

Abstract

Numerous pages have already been written about research in didactics of History and Social Sciences. In them, we can find debates on its epistemological status and methodological perspectives; lines of inquiry and areas of vacancy, the links it maintains with other fields of knowledge and with the teaching practices it tries to analyze, understand and -eventually- transform. Many of these sheets have been communicated in congresses and symposiums organized by APEHUN or in the publications of its journal Reseñas de la Enseñanza de la Historia. The research that circulates there, the debates that arise, the questions and challenges they propose have contributed significantly to the creation and consolidation of a field of knowledge -that of research in history didactics- that has -not by chance- almost the same age as the Association. In this process, the dialogue and debate with other groups of researchers, both national and international, has been fundamental for the growth of didactics of history in our country.