Historical Consciousness Models in Secondary Education Students: Tradition, Symbology and Contextualization of the Remains of Franco’s Regime
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The concept of historical consciousness, associated to past and future conceptions in relation to the present, is useful as an analytical framework focusing on history students’ ideas. This paper has counted on the participating of 132 fourth-year compulsory secondary education students from four different cities in Spain, who have worked about the Spanish transition to democracy with a digital learning environment. Using a controversial issue linked with the continuity of patrimonial remains of the Francoist era, and by means of a qualitative analysis, this study centers its attention in characterizing students’ historical consciousness models. The results help identify key characteristics in their conceptions, including the influence of tradition and a concern for symbolization, corroborating that the genetic vision, related to contextualization, is less common than the traditional, exemplary and critical ones.
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