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On May 30, Professor Christian Sebastian, from the Catholic University of Chile, shared with the Makinghistories team at the Autonomous University of Madrid his research advances on the development of historical thinking, and specifically focusing on two issues around it.
In his words, “The first one is what happens with those aspects that have demonstrated to be more difficult to develop: contextualization, perspective taking and historical empathy. However, it is not just a problem in empirical terms but also in theoretical terms and is that the authors have not reached consensus on the distinction of concepts such as taking perspective and historical empathy and on the place of emotions within historical thinking. The second problem that we try to address is the absence of a theoretical psychological explanation that can enlighten how historical thinking develops and why some dimensions are more challenging to develop. (Albornoz & Sebastian, 2019).
Therefore, it is proposed to understand the problem from a cultural-historical perspective, specifically from Vygotsky’s concept of cultural mediation and cultural tool.
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