La visibilidad de lo cotidiano. Didáctica, Historia y fuentes documentales para el estudio de la vida universitaria en la Salamanca moderna

This paper aims to use historical documents from archives as a resource in the teaching History. The importance of historical archives for theoretical research in Humanities has overshadowed its didactic potential until a few years ago. One of the causes has been the existence of preconceived ideas in the treatment, use and research on primary sources. Fortunately, agents involved in the construction of the past have changed, transcending space and traditional uses of historical sources and creating thereby a new historical culture. Considering this context, the approach and didactic use of historical documents heritage in the classrooms is proposed. Methodology is based on the educational itinerary through an historical archive taking advantage of multiple options for constructive learning of history offered by these spaces. The educational context that promotes learning is no longer the classroom: it occupies a different space instead, the archive. The objective is to produce direct contact with historical sources in which filters such as textbooks are dispensed with. This fact is one of its main attractions, along with the essentially practical component, an aspect that, in case of teaching history, it is generally difficult to achieve.