Good practices for Social Science Didactics

This book is the result of the compilation of various publications that we have been making in the area of Social Sciences Didactics in the Department of Specific Didactics at the University of Cordoba Spain. In our eagerness to train future teachers in concepts methodology and competencies which they will later be able to apply in Primary Education classrooms we have tried to look for ways that would be useful for this purpose. Among the various possibilities we have considered that the teaching of local history presents several very valid characteristics for the teaching of historical time chronological time and the development of historical and critical thinking of our students especially because it favors attention and learning about the environment increases motivation to learn and discover aspects of their city allows them to understand the meaning of heritage or the history of their locality in general terms or to encourage critical analysis as citizens of what is happening around them.