the scientific-didactic principles theory (s.d.p.) applied to movies as an improvement of didactics of geography and history

Abstract

The rationale of this paper has grounds for the model of Scientific-Didactic Principles for teaching – learning of Geography and History created, published and introduced by García Ruiz and Jiménez López (2006 / 2007). The main idea behind this theory is that scientific principles must build the basis of learning of students in sciences, therefore they also a have a double didactic nature. In this paper we analyse, using this model, the “Gandhi” movie as an example of the didactic introduction of movies in classrooms in order to improve the quality of learnings in Geography and History.