The book Las ciencias sociales y su didáctica: pensamiento histórico y educación democrática: Homenaje a Joaquín Prats Cuevas, coordinated by Ilaria Bellatti, Concepción Fuentes Moreno, Pedro Miralles Martínez and Lydia Sánchez Gómez, is now available for free download. It has been published by Octaedro.

In this volume, various specialists in social sciences come together to pay tribute to Joaquín Prats, Professor of Social Sciences Didactics and founder of the DHIGECS research group.He is a rigorous historian, educator, and scientific disseminator who has paved the way for historical and social knowledge in classrooms, advocating for the application of the historical method in the democratic education of young people.

This work contributes to the formative value of social sciences in both school and heritage education, as well as in more informal knowledge domains. The authors explore the beginnings of didactics in this field in Spain and Ibero-America, tracing its development into a specific scientific knowledge field.