RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 The End-Purpose of Teaching Social Sciences and the Curricular Inclusion of Social Problems A1 Ortega Sánchez, Delfín K1 Educación K1 Education K1 Educación-Planificación K1 Educational planning AB The most recent scientific literature on the treatment of social problems or controversial social questions in the social sciences classroom and their inclusion into curricula emphasizes the need to introduce students into large-scale social debates where different points of view exist, different interests are at stake, and where it is desirable that they construct their own opinions in that respect from a critical and reasoned perspective. Research on social problems permits a typology of analysis that includes the relative experience of the past and the expectations for the future in a present that is lived and to consider the temporal relation on the basis of an analysis of changes and continuities that are observable from a comparative perspective. In the comprehension and interpretation of the historicity of the present and in planning the social future, social problems would have to represent a fundamental curricular tenant that gives relevance to the contemporaneousness of the student. PB MDPI SN 2076-0760 YR 2022 FD 2022-01 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7172 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7172 LA eng NO Artículo editorial del número especial dedicado a The End-Purpose of Teaching Social Sciences and the Curricular Inclusion of Social Problems NO Research Group Recognized in Didactics of History and Social Sciences (DHISO), and the Group for Educational Innovation in Didactics of Social Sciences, Languages, and Literatures in Initial Teacher Training of Early Childhood Education and Primary Education (DiCSOL) of the University of Burgos. This publication is part of the R&D Project Teach and Learn to interpret contemporary problems and conflicts. What do the Social Sciences contribute to the formation of a critical global citizenship? (EDU2016-80145-P), financed by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Spanish Government), and Future Education and Democratic Hope. Rethinking Social Studies Education in changing times (PID2019-107383RB-I00), financed by the Ministry of Science, and Innovation (Spanish Government). DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos RD 26-abr-2024