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Learning, Teaching and Research Among the strong recommendations of the History group in the Tuning project, discussed and validated by the History Networks, is that from the most general and elementary course unit in history, to highest level of research training, the learner should have direct contact, even if quantitatively limited, with original documents and with professional historiographical work. This means that learning/teaching and research are intimately connected. The historical mindset is in essence enquiring, and multidisciplinary. The historian uses whatever conceptual or documentary tools are available to resolve the problems which appear relevant. There is no ‘corpus’ of knowledge, or group of tools to be defined or acquired once and for all. History by its nature is a science of change, and itself in continuous transformation. Teachers who do not have the opportunity of doing original research themselves cannot transmit to students the questioning critical attitude towards past and present which is one of the hallmarks of the historical view of reality. This factor needs to be pointed out clearly, particularly in those countries where undergraduate teachers’ loads may be so heavy as to make it impossible for them to undertake meaningful research. In the pages of this booklet, the reader will find the list of ‘subject specific’ competences (those regarding history training specifically) and ‘cycle level descriptors’ (that is, indications of what a student should know. understand and be able to do at the end of a single course unit, a double major, a first or a second cycle degree in History) elaborated in Tuning. These materials were the object of a broad consultation with academics throughout our Network, and we were able to ascertain that in all countries there was general agreement on the following: - every history course, even the most elementary or general, for students of any Faculty or subject area, should communicate the ‘historical’ attitude toward reality; - more technical knowledge is to be gained during further study according to the particular period or diachronic theme studied; - every history course, even the most elementary or general, for students of any Faculty or subject area, should give direct contact with original documents and professional historiographical research. The results of the work of the History group in Tuning is available on the Tuning website (http://unideusto.org/tuning) and on the CLIOHWORLD website (http://www.cliohworld.net/).
2. The History Template: A Summary of Results 1. The subject area History addresses the study of the human past. As a discipline it is widely present in higher education institutions as well as in schools. It constitutes not only an academic subject or research area, but also an important aspect of ‘general culture’. Training in History creates flexible individuals with the analytical, critical and communications skills essential for citizenship and personal culture, as well as for professional roles in the emerging knowledge society. In the context of European enlargement and today’s rapidly changing world, History faces particular challenges and enjoys remarkable opportunities. As one of the first forms of social consciousness and group and regional identity it is an important factor of social cohesion. Indeed, History properly understood and utilised can enable us to overcome the aggressive confrontations which have set nations and groups against one another. Of all the subject areas involved in Tuning, History has turned out to present the most varied picture in the different countries represented. National university and school systems determine a context in which quite naturally a large part of ‘contents’ taught in each country are linked to the national culture or vision of the past; furthermore, the History group has found that the theoretical and practical premises created by each national culture and teaching tradition differ, often very sharply. Hence the structure of studies, and ideas about what should be done at the beginning of degree programmes and what at a more advanced stage are quite different. For this reason, the History group did not consider it possible or useful to identify a core curriculum, but decided rather to create agreed reference points, based on both subject specific and key generic competences, around which programmes can be built in all countries. Not only the intellectual premises of studies, but also the perceived role of history graduates in various European countries differs widely. In some countries a first or second cycle degree in History is a common general degree, often completed by young men and women who do not plan a career in history teaching or research. In others it continues to be considered to be of interest almost exclusively for future school teachers or as pre-doctoral preparation for university level academics and researchers. In the former, history studies seem to be in good
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