Las revoluciones burguesas desde la empatía histórica

Abstract

Historical empathy is one of the new understandings of teaching and learning in the social sciences, moving beyond rote learning and toward active and critical knowledge. Thus, its use in history makes it possible to generate participatory and problematizing work on historical contexts and the actions of agents and figures immersed in historical narratives. This motivates students by exploring their immediate social contexts and developing skills that allow them to understand and actively participate in the construction of the current world, its infinite understandings and complexities. These skills primarily include: analysis and understanding of historical contexts, their diverse economic, political, and social perspectives, based on concepts such as power, justice, and so on, in addition to strengthening their capacity for discussion and awareness about past actions, their connection to the present, and their potential future impacts. This current internship brings historical empathy to the Bogotá classroom, hoping to enhance this network of knowledge contained within the student and also within the teacher (prior knowledge), where knowledge is built through dialogue with the contents of history; relevant and binding knowledge that allows the subject to understand and analyze the actions of this unknown person who lived many years ago, governed by ideologies, contexts, and dynamics as he is currently, analyzing from his own voice the reality in which he is immersed, the implications of the past in it, the current ones, and how it will affect future ones.