Call for Papers - Submission of Originals for the 2026 Special Issue (No. 52): “History, Citizenship, and Teaching Practices”
Special Issue “History, Citizenship, and Teaching Practices”
Guest Editors:
- Jéssica Ramírez Achoy – jessica.ramirez.achoy@una.ac.cr (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica)
- Liliam Almeyda – lalmeyda@uahurtado.cl (Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile)
- María Paula González – mpgonzal@campus.ungs.edu.ar (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina)
Summary:
What defines a citizen? How is that definition shaped through the teaching of the social sciences? What kinds of learning in citizenship develop in relation to the history teaching approaches implemented by teachers? What type of citizenship is taught when schools refer to a traditional past or a critical one? What type of history do teachers choose to teach in order to foster citizenship? What role do memories and subjectivities play in teaching practices?
The questions above are the starting point of this special issue, which aims to discuss the purposes and the curricular, teaching, or assessment decisions that social sciences teachers assign to the history taught in Primary and Secondary Education classrooms, and its close relationship with citizenship.
The relevance of this special issue lies in the possibility of studying the classroom directly in dialogue with social sciences teachers, in order to understand the logics in which the historical narrative and memory of historical events are involved, and their relationship with the formation of citizenships — thereby offering opportunities for reflection on those teaching practices.
In this way, the special issue seeks to contribute to the professional development of social sciences teachers by promoting critical perspectives on the past, memory, and history in the formation of citizenships that are conscious of collective actions, with the goal of improving societies and promoting social justice and access to a better quality of life for all people.
Therefore, for the special issue “History, Citizenship, and Teaching Practices”, we will accept papers that address any of these conceptual axes from the perspective of the didactics of the social sciences, whether through empirical research or theoretical reflections that generate new insights into teaching practice.
Submission deadline:
15 July 2026.
Standardized manuscript template:
Authors’ guidelines and submission:
https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/clio/about/submissions
Journal indexing:
Clío. History and History Teaching is a journal with the FECYT seal (2025).
