TEACHING HISTORY, LEARNING HISTORY: A THREE-WAY DIALOGUE

This text offers some reflections on History teaching at University. In other words the training of professional historians who will create and pass on historical knowledge during the 21st century: they are going to research and teach History to future generations, as well as conserve and transfer the heritage that we have received from the past. We begin with personal experience and work carried out as Coordinator of an innovation in teaching team in the Department of Medieval History at the University of Barcelona. The text, defined as a dialogue, emerged from the author's experience of conversations with other members of the team; it goes on to think about History, and to do so in terms of teacher-student interaction, the changes that are required in our ever changing world; the importance of collaborative work and the dialogue that we have to establish with historical sources to create and pass on historical, social and human knowledge.