Area
Humanities
Sub-Discipline
Other humanities
Alberto Hurtado University
- City: Santiago,
- Commune: Santiago,
- Region: Metropolitan Region
goals
• To intervene with didactic foundations in
design, implementation and evaluation
of processes related to teaching and
learning the discipline and making
decisions in the face of challenges specific to the field
professional action: design and evaluation
curriculum, design and implementation of units
teaching methods, and monitoring and analysis of practices
educational, among others.
• Develop research skills
of the phenomena that can be addressed
From a disciplinary didactic perspective, to
through the development of associated performances
to the study of classroom evidence on the
teaching and learning of History, the
Geography and Civic Education.
• Belonging to a training space,
research production and dissemination of
knowledge in the field of learning
discipline, in addition to being part of a network in
around the area, made up of specialists to
national and international level.
Applicant Profile
Within this framework, the target audience for this Master's program includes: • Practicing secondary school teachers of History and Social Sciences at the primary or secondary level with five or more years of experience. • History and Social Sciences teachers working in the university setting, teaching the Didactics of the subject or serving as tutors in the professional practice track. • History and Social Sciences teachers working in areas related to the teaching of History, Geography, and Civic Education (publishing houses, foundations, etc.) who are interested in improving the quality of the design and management processes for teaching and learning the discipline.
Graduate profile
The Graduate of the Master's Degree in Didactics of
History and the Social Sciences develop
skills and expertise in the areas and subjects
characteristic of applied intervention and research
in the field of Didactics:
DISCIPLINARY DIDACTIC SPECIALIZATION:
The fundamental change that the process generates
The training aspect is to convert teachers and professionals
linked to teaching, in specialists in the
field, capable of facing with fundamentals
Disciplinary teaching challenges and dilemmas
characteristic of learning and teaching
historical, geographical and educational disciplines
Citizen at the school level.
REFLECTION ON PRACTICE:
Specialization in didactic knowledge
disciplinary and didactic analysis models,
It allows graduates to anticipate events
typical of their professional work, reflecting
with knowledge about the components of
didactic situation, understanding its dynamics in
a particular class context and being able to take
the most relevant decisions in the diagnosis
of learning problems and obstacles, analysis
of didactic processes, and implementation and
evaluation of teaching proposals for the
improvement of teaching and learning practices
of the discipline.
DISCIPLINARY DIDACTIC RESEARCH:
The people who complete the program acquire
and refine the theoretical tools and
methodological approaches that will allow them to confront
property a didactic research process
and the production of knowledge in the area,
through the implementation of skills
analytical and critical methodologies that allow
to face different types of situations,
didactic questions or hypotheses, with a view to the
understanding of phenomena inherent to learning
of History, Geography and Education
Citizenship and scenario building
of anticipation and responses to situations
teaching methods related to the field of study.
Lines of investigation
• School learning of the discipline: Study
around the school classroom and learning
discipline.
• Initial teacher training: Studies related to
learning from the teaching of a discipline.
• Devices for learning
discipline: Studies concerning its analysis, design,
development and impact.
• Curriculum: Studies related to analysis, design
and curriculum evaluation in the discipline.
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