iTeachers: a importância dos recursos digitais na formação inicial de professores de História

Abstract

The focus of this work is on the initial training of history teachers, within the scope of the Master's Degree in History Teaching in the 3rd Cycle of Basic Education (CEB) and Secondary Education (ES), and in particular on the importance of the curricular unit "The WEB and the Teaching of History" in the official syllabus of the cycle of studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. In this sense, the aim was to find out the students' feedback after attending this course, immediately after completing it, and to assess the importance of the lessons learnt in this course in the practices of former students when they become CEB and ES History teachers, particularly in the last two academic years. The population of this study is made up of individuals who attended the course between 2015 and 2021 and who have since completed their training and are now teaching. In this sense, it is a population in transition, who first collaborated as students and more recently as teachers. The main conclusions show that the majority of the participants are highly satisfied and consider that the learning has proved very useful in their work as history teachers.