Fuentes orales para el desarrollo de la empatía histórica: un estudio en la formación del profesorado de Educación Infantil

This paper presents a study carried out at the University of Valladolid (Spain) with students enrolled in the Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree. Historical empathy levels are examined, both in their cognitive and affective-emotional dimensions, in connection with the use of oral sources. A research model based on the qualitative methodological paradigm has been designed, and the ATLAS.ti software has been used to analyze narratives created by students after an intervention in order to foster historical empathy. The intervention focused on the examination of testimonies provided by two Canarian emigrants who spent a few years of their childhood and adolescence in the Spanish Sahara. The results show that the students' work with oral sources can optimize contextualized explanations mediated by historical empathy.