Abstract

The purpose of the present article is to review the 2013 curriculum proposed for history, geography and social sciences, from the 7th grade of Primary School to the 2nd grade of Secondary School, in order to define challenges for the initial history teachers' training programmes in Chile and, therefore, to establish teaching strategies for teacher trainers and researchers in didactics on history and social sciences education. Those challenges intend to include in the learning how to teach process the developing of historical thinking and cognitive skills that allow deep comprehension of the historical processes such as temporal and spatial thinking, the work and studies on sources, critical thinking and communication.