Metodologías activas para desarrollar la formación ciudadana en Ciencias Sociales con alumnado de Educación Secundaria

The acquisition of Key Competencies at the end of compulsory education in Spain is a challenge of our educational system that pursues the comprehensive education of students as citizens who are members of the European Union.Traditionally, in social science subjects the teaching-learning process has been rote in nature, making it difficult to achieve meaningful learning and, therefore, the acquisition of skills. That is why, currently, there is a commitment to active methodologies that make it possible to improve the academic performance of students. In this work we have attempted, from the implementation of an innovative project based on cooperative learning to work on the contents of the 4th ESO History subject, to improve, on the one hand, the development of civic and social competencies and, on the other hand, evaluate the perception of our students under study with respect to their own process of acquiring these skills. For this we present a mixed research; composed of a qualitative part through participant observation to assess the academic performance of the students and a quantitative part through the use of a pre- and post-test questionnaire that allows to observe the evolution of their perception. The results show that cooperative learning facilitates the acquisition of social and democratic values ​​necessary to promote and even improve relationships between peers by providing a climate of trust that contributes, in turn, to the improvement of personal and academic skills that allow learning how to learn.