Medieval evening: experience of historical representations in initial teacher training

Abstract

Historical representation as a learning methodology has been worked on in the school environment, but in tertiary education it is presented only in extra-programmatic workshops, being that it can constitute a methodology for the integration of academic theoretical training with the practical training. Considering the didactic disciplinary integration of the renewed plan of the Pedagogy in History and Geography career of the University of La Serena, particularly in the area of History, and collecting the background of activities that have included dramatizations, such as staging of tragedies in Mundo Clásico courses, the organization of Chingana Republicana in the area of History of Chile, and the same narrative performances in previous generations of the Mundo Medieval course, has bet on the latest versions of the Medieval Evening for a integrating work supported by a research base in its preparation phase, at the same time that it has allowed to include aspects that can be replicated in the school environment without neglecting the festive dimension in the realization and final presentation, in order to achieve genuine, significant and lasting learning