Controversial Topics and Their Didactic Use: Analysis of the Activities Included in Italian and Spanish Textbooks

Authors

  • Mario Ferreras-Listán University of Seville, Spain
  • José Antonio Pineda-Alfonso University of Seville, Spain
  • Coral Ivy Hunt-Gómez University of Seville, Spain
  • Pablo Baisotti University of Costa Rica

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15823/p.2020.139.8

Keywords:

textbook, citizenship education, history and culture teaching, secondary education

Abstract

This paper explores the didactic treatment of Franco’s dictatorship and Mussolini’s Fascism in History textbooks at a Secondary Education level. Using a mixed methodology, 278 activities were analysed and a typology was established. Despite that, the studied literature clearly advocates for the use of controversial topics due to their high educational potential, results show that controversial topics are avoided in the analysed textbooks, as they provide teachers an „aseptic recipe“ to deal with them.

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Published

2020-11-16

How to Cite

Ferreras-Listán, M., Pineda-Alfonso, J. A., Hunt-Gómez, C. I., & Baisotti, P. (2020). Controversial Topics and Their Didactic Use: Analysis of the Activities Included in Italian and Spanish Textbooks. Pedagogika / Pedagogy, 139(3), 157–174. https://doi.org/10.15823/p.2020.139.8

Issue

Vol. 139 No. 3 (2020)

Section

Articles