María Martínez-Hita

María Martínez-Hita has a PhD (2022) by University of Murcia (Spain). Master's degree in Research and Innovation in Preschool and Primary School Education (2016). Bachelor’s degree in Primary Education with Mention in English as a foreign language (2015). Primary school teacher since 2016. Winner of the XXIV Congress of Young Researchers (2011) and representative of Spain in the XXIV European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS) (2012). Main research interests focus on teaching and learning of social sciences, gamification, history education, historical thinking, primary education, and teaching method innovations. Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0341-6795

Publications

Cases on Historical Thinking and Gamification in Social Studies and Humanities Education
Cases on Historical Thinking and Gamification in Social Studies and Humanities Education
María Martínez-Hita, Cosme Jesús Gómez Carrasco, Pedro Miralles-Martínez. © 2022. 338 pages.
Research on history education and historical thinking is becoming increasingly relevant internationally. The need for a renewal of history education is not only justified by the...
Changes in Primary School Students' Ideas About History After Implementing a Gamified Intervention Programme
Changes in Primary School Students' Ideas About History After Implementing a Gamified Intervention Programme
María Martínez-Hita, Cosme Gómez Carrasco, Pedro Miralles-Martínez. © 2022. 18 pages.
The teaching of history requires a process of change to encourage the active learning of historical research methods rather than the mere memorisation and the learning of...
A Proposal for the Design of a Gamified Experience for the Teaching of Historical Thinking in Primary Education
A Proposal for the Design of a Gamified Experience for the Teaching of Historical Thinking in Primary Education
María Martínez-Hita, Cosme Jesús Gómez Carrasco, Pedro Miralles-Martínez. © 2022. 16 pages.
The need for a transformation of the teaching and learning process of history has long been called for from the field of history education research. A change is advocated which...