Didactics and history of the Risorgimento. Practices, methods and tips for secondary schools

• Main Author: Giuseppe Ferraro
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Bologna 2021-03-01
• Series: Didattica della storia
• Subjects: workshop teaching; distance learning; risorgimento; brigandage; education
• Online Access: https://dsrivista.unibo.it/article/view/12537

In this essay, various practices for the teaching of these themes in upper secondary schools will be introduced. The goal is to combine the study of contents with research questions and teaching theory, to enhance workshop-teaching activities and active citizenship education. A series of strategies, practices and case studies might help teachers to better calibrate the timing of their lessons, making them more varied and offering new sources for distance learning, even when asynchronous and designed for open spaces. Good practices that can help transform schools into true learning communities, in continuous communication with the territory in which they operate but projected into the complexity of the global world, starting from their own classrooms.