Giovanni Carosotti
Giovanni Carosotti: Liceo Virgilio Milano (giovanni@carosotti.it; ORCID: 0009- 0002-7732-0339).
A Dangerous Liaison. ‘Digital History’ between methodological and didactic innovation
Abstract: Digital History consistently puts forward proposals for the methodological rethinking of the historical discipline, according to the new informational reality. The debate is still in the making and, despite some proposals to this effect, it is doubtful that it can already affect the intellectual act with which the historian contributes to the advancement of disciplinary research. With the aim of legitimising their own positions, in some studies the supporters of Digital History have claimed to affirm the need for a radical change in the didactics of history, borrowing their assumptions from recent technocratic outcomes of pedagogical research; the risk, however, is that of inhibiting the discipline’s formative aims, accentuating its marginality in the public debate.
Keywords: Crisis of History; Pedagogical Scientism; Digital Revolution; Historiographic Research; Teaching History.