Teaching guide for the use of testimonies and experiences about the Civil War, post-war period, and early Francoism. The story told

Abstract

Writing about events without reinventing them, but rather using the facts as narrated by the actors who lived them, is increasingly essential in historical education and involves the use of innovative methodology.
As a teacher, I consider it essential that new generations know and learn about the circumstances of Spain's recent history. In Spain, in secondary school and high school, the civil war, the post-war period, and the Franco regime are studied in history class. A less theoretical and more experiential approach could help our students learn about the past by knowing the facts. The narrative method, based on testimonies, could be used for teaching/learning about this period. This has many advantages, including learning about and from the past when there are no longer any living generations (grandparents, ancestors) who can narrate the events as witnesses. In addition to emotional learning, it involves knowledge about the management, use, reuse, and utilization of goods and food. But it also serves to learn about the other version of events, the ideology of the moment, and the confrontation between brothers that occurs, for example, in a civil war. And obviously, it is essential to contribute to overcoming a country's history.