Concept Map as a Learning Strategy of History in Secondary School in Mexico

Teenagers from 12 to 14 years old attend secondary school in Mexico, whereby they are taught history during the three years of secondary school’s duration. At this stage, history is normally taught in a mechanical manner and kids make use of procedures that are useful to memorize specific facts but not to learn meaningfully. As a result, the outcome of this process does not match the optimal expectation. In order to improve the outcome, the necessity to assess and compare different teaching techniques arises. The scope of this analysis is to compare the use of concept maps in opposition to the current procedures used in history teaching process. The results obtained from the comparison demonstrate that concept maps are better tools than the current ones used to teach history in secondary school. Therefore, the spread usage of concept maps should be increased.