Design Thinking Classroom Experience

Design For Change for History teaching

Complutense University, Faculty of Education - Teacher Training Center. Show map
The Design For Change methodology is applied throughout the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 academic courses to the subject "Fundamentals and Didactics of History", resulting in 27 projects with real impact on History teaching. The proposed framework is Teaching History in Primary Education.
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Mandatory course of the Degree in Primary Education at Complutense University.
The methodology is used with three morning shift groups from 2018-2019 and 2019-2020.
Each group has between 63-80 students.
To develop the projects the groups are divided into two, so it's always possible to work with half of the class (30-35 students aprox).
The adaptation of History teaching to "learning by doing" methodologies that are adapted to competence frameworks.
Students develop important soft skills such as creativity, resilience, teamwork, communication, leadership, etc.
Students learn on a par new disciplinary contents and innovation methodologies.
The DFC adaptation to the course teacher’s guides.
The possibility of projects among various courses.
A greater adaptation of assessment to scientific criteria typical of educational research; though a study on the experiences of the two courses has been conducted and is on its way to be published in an academic journal.

David Alonso García

Contracted Professor Doctor in the Department of Modern History of the UCM and of the area of ​​Didactics of the Social Sciences. He has designed and directed different entrepreneurship programs in the Humanities, in collaboration with entities such as Impact Hub Madrid or the Madrid Business Forum. He currently holds the position of Director of Compluempren-Complutense Entrepreneurship Office
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