AUTHOR=Muñoz-Muñoz Pablo , Ortuno-Molina Jorge , Molina-Puche Sebastian 
  
TITLE=The influence of transmedia and extra-academic narratives on the formation of the historical culture of high school students
  
JOURNAL=Frontiers in Education
  
VOLUME=Volume 8 - 2023
  
YEAR=2024
  
URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1295500
  
DOI=10.3389/feduc.2023.1295500
  
ISSN=2504-284X
  
ABSTRACT=This paper concerns with the importance of traditional and extra-academic sources of knowledge in the configuration of historical culture of Spanish adolescents. To conduct the research, a descriptive phenomenological approach has been designed by analyzing the responses of forty-eight students to a semi-structured interview in which they had to choose 5 characters of contemporary history and indicate the origin of the information. The results show the high coincidence of characters and the type of personalities chosen, also with high similarities in other studies conducted in Spain and other countries of the near sociocultural context. Although informal sources in the historical education of students is a clear fact, nevertheless it is still the formal context which has the greatest impact on adolescents. Therefore, the role of history teaching in schools provides a reinforcement of cultural values much more than to use historical knowledge as a tool of improvement of critical thinking, something that would be desirable to face the new challenges that multicultural societies imply.