¿Cómo Definen Los Alumnos Chilenos La Transición De Una Dictadura A Una Democracia?
How Do the Chilean Students Define the Transition from a Dictatorship to a Democracy?

Summary/Abstract: Teaching Social Science in the school world should focus on learning core concepts that structure the social, economic and political processes, starting from central problems that explain reality. In this sense, the conceptual learning achieved by students offer the possibility to understand what they know about a particular historical-political period, which is critical in order to understand how they construct their historical knowledge. Therefore, in this article we will refer to the conceptualization realized by the Chilean pupils from Secondary Level in relation to the process of Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy. The results show that students define the transition as a product made as a result of automatic or sudden changes, rather than as a multi-level historical process. However, there is a positive assessment of this important historical process for citizenship, allowing the existence and promotion of some democratic principles such as freedom, the right to vote and the ability to elect representatives.

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