Digital and Social-Civic Skills in Future Primary Education Teachers: A Study from the Didactics of Social Sciences for the Improvement of Teacher Training in Competences

The use of technology, especially among young people, is providing new possibilities, including in the academic field, and requires teacher training through the development of skills and competences. At this point, Social Science Didactics plays a fundamental role, as it prepares future teachers to...

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Published inEducation sciences Vol. 14; no. 2; p. 211
Main Authors Guerrero Elecalde, Rafael, Contreras García, Javier, Bonilla Martos, Antonio Luis, Serrano Arnáez, Begoña
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.02.2024
Subjects
Analysis
Curricula
didactics of social sciences
Digital literacy
digital skills
Education
Educational Environment
Educational Policy
Educational technology
Learning
Learning Processes
Lifelong Learning
Primary Education
primary education degree
Social networks
social-civic skills
Spain
Surveys
Teacher Improvement
teacher training
Teachers
Teaching
Thinking Skills
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Spain
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Summary:The use of technology, especially among young people, is providing new possibilities, including in the academic field, and requires teacher training through the development of skills and competences. At this point, Social Science Didactics plays a fundamental role, as it prepares future teachers to teach social knowledge in order to achieve useful and meaningful learning for students and society. Using an online questionnaire, structured with the Likert scale, which had previously been validated and published by Professors Peart, Gutiérrez-Esteban, and Cubo-Delgado, 156 students of the Degree in Primary Education of the subject Didactics of Social Sciences at the University of Granada (Spain) participated (academic year 2023–2024), with the aim of investigating the digital and socio-civic competences of trainee teachers in order to seek ways to improve their training. The results were processed in the IBM SPSS Statistics 25 programme, carrying out a descriptive statistical analysis, considering the mode and the variance ratio. The participating students mainly use digital environments to communicate with acquaintances and, although they know and value a democratic society, they do not exercise their citizenship on the Internet. This makes it even more necessary to train future teachers in digital competences, based on digital and socio-civic skills, as only in this way will they be able to train citizens capable of facing the challenges of the knowledge society.
ISSN:2227-7102
2227-7102
DOI:10.3390/educsci14020211