The subject History of the contemporary world in pre-university

Abstract

Cuban educational policy is focused on a process of transformations for its improvement, where curricular changes take place at different levels. The application of study programs faces the challenge of applying a new conception for the treatment of content from developmental didactics. The objective of this article is to socialize the improvement in the practice of teaching the subject History of the Contemporary World at the pre-university level. The result presented was based on the theoretical study and the systematization of lived experiences about how the teaching-learning process developing this subject was conceived and the possibilities of being perfected, based on the diagnosis. The educational context in which the study took place was the "Eduardo García Delgado" Urban Pre-University Institute, Trinidad municipality, Sancti Spíritus province. An essentially qualitative methodology was followed, where the theoretical methods of analysis-synthesis and inductive-deductive and the empirical methods of document review, systematization of experiences, survey and interview were used. The results obtained allowed us to reach the conclusion that, with the application of the developmental teaching strategies, based on the diagnosis that considered the potentialities and shortcomings, it was possible to meet the objectives of the aforementioned subject, so that the students understood contemporary historical processes, phenomena and events in a comprehensive manner, from an economic, social, political, philosophical and cultural vision, to critically assess them and assume a revolutionary position regarding their concrete manifestations.