Do We Educate Citizens in the Course of History?

Abstract

In the current educational context, the history of Spain is a compulsory subject which all the students of Bachillerato have to study. This fact can be explained by the qualities that this subject shares with citizenship education whenever we pressume the students will be able to use the learned contents to face the social problems in a complex way. In this paper, we expose the results of a research in which the students' conceptions related to this topic are analised, the students’ difficulties are made evident, an idea about the possible causes of the difficulties are given and some improvement strategies are presented.