History
HITV 3605
Lecture 1
Class Discussion
What is History?
What is History?
• History as a science
• Inventing History - Herodotus wrote about the wars
between Persia and Greece. Thucydides wrote
about the civil war between Athens and Sparta.
• Ancient Rhetoric
• Art of Persuasion
• Rankean History – 19th Century
What do
historians do?
How do they do it?
Historical Sources Primary
• diaries,
• letters,
• interviews,
• oral histories,
• photographs,
• newspaper articles,
• government documents,
• poems, novels, plays, and
music.
Secondary Sources
• Books
• Biographies
• articles
Historical School – Lens: Bias
Social history Annales
School
Environmental
history
World history
Economic
history
Cultural
history
Gender
history
Subaltern
studies
Ethnohistory
History of
ideas
Linguistic
history
Microhistory
Military history
Political history
Revisionism
Great man
history
Economic
history
Diplomatic
history/Rankean
History
Film and History
Digital Games
and History
African History
History as a school subject
What is the difference?
Focus and Choice
History
Education Components
• History as a school
subject
• Training
• Teaching
• Learning
FET Phase Role
Multiple
School History as
Propaganda
History as a school
subject
• Role
• Lessons from the past
• Explaining and understanding the
present
• Predicting or "forecasting" the future
• Self-understanding of existence
• Source of values
• Obtaining knowledge and selfknowledge
• Critical awareness and thinking skills
the development of values and goals like making informed decisions, based on a study of the past;
helping learners to study the past so that they have a better understanding of the present and where they come from;
having a clearer self-understanding of their existence and their co-existence with other in specific contexts;
helping, through a study of the past, to identify values that may assist one in making sound value judgements;
identifying trends and processes so that one can have a more holistic perspective on the present and where they fit in the
broader world;
obtaining more self-knowledge to enable one to understand where one comes from and to co-exist with others;
assisting learners to develop and acquire a more critical awareness and critical thinking skills, and
helping learners to develop a historical consciousness through the development of visual literacy.
Curriculum Reform
Latest Reform Implementation
Compulsory History FET
Discussion
Reform Content
• Afrocentrism
Discussion
The Challenge
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