scholarly journals Analysing documents and interpreting textbooks: Students' historical thinking skills in learning about the battle of Surabaya

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditya Widiadi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Historical Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
History Teachers ◽  
History Curriculum

<p><b>This thesis examines how secondary students in Indonesia develop historical thinking skills through analysing documents and interpreting textbooks on a key historical event in Indonesia’s independence: the battle of Surabaya. Developing historical thinking skills poses a particular challenge in an Indonesian setting. Although history education has been largely aimed at fostering a spirit of nationalism and patriotism among younger people, the recent history curriculum (2013) requires teachers to foster historical thinking skills with their students. This poses a significant challenge for teachers who typically rely on lectures and textbooks with an official government perspective. Even those teachers who are motivated, have difficulties in accessing primary sources needed to stimulate students’ historical thinking. </b></p><p>There is a gap in the literature on historical thinking in Indonesia, and this research project contributes to how these challenges can be addressed. To examine how learning history through analysing documents and interpreting textbooks contribute to students’ historical thinking skills, this study was informed by the theoretical perspectives of critical pedagogy, cognitivism, threshold concepts, and connectivism. To collect and analyse the data, this study used a mixed methods intervention design. Participants in this study involved three history teachers from three different schools and 11th grade students (n = 191, age 16-19) that were divided into control and experimental groups. By using six data collection instruments, both quantitative and qualitative, this study conducted two phases of learning interventions. </p><p>Findings of this study show that analysing documents and interpreting textbooks (ADIT learning model) contributes to the development of students’ historical thinking skills. This was demonstrated by the experimental group who progressed better than those of the control group. However, both groups of students were challenged, especially when dealing with multiple sources and establishing their interpretative position. The findings of this study also show that the advancement of students’ historical thinking skills was closely related to students’ complex epistemic beliefs about history. Learning through analysing documents and interpreting textbooks, as well as using web-based historical sources, has proven to foster students’ historical thinking skills.</p>

scholarly journals Analysing documents and interpreting textbooks: Students' historical thinking skills in learning about the battle of Surabaya

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditya Widiadi
Keyword(s):  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Historical Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
History Teachers ◽  
History Curriculum

<p><b>This thesis examines how secondary students in Indonesia develop historical thinking skills through analysing documents and interpreting textbooks on a key historical event in Indonesia’s independence: the battle of Surabaya. Developing historical thinking skills poses a particular challenge in an Indonesian setting. Although history education has been largely aimed at fostering a spirit of nationalism and patriotism among younger people, the recent history curriculum (2013) requires teachers to foster historical thinking skills with their students. This poses a significant challenge for teachers who typically rely on lectures and textbooks with an official government perspective. Even those teachers who are motivated, have difficulties in accessing primary sources needed to stimulate students’ historical thinking. </b></p><p>There is a gap in the literature on historical thinking in Indonesia, and this research project contributes to how these challenges can be addressed. To examine how learning history through analysing documents and interpreting textbooks contribute to students’ historical thinking skills, this study was informed by the theoretical perspectives of critical pedagogy, cognitivism, threshold concepts, and connectivism. To collect and analyse the data, this study used a mixed methods intervention design. Participants in this study involved three history teachers from three different schools and 11th grade students (n = 191, age 16-19) that were divided into control and experimental groups. By using six data collection instruments, both quantitative and qualitative, this study conducted two phases of learning interventions. </p><p>Findings of this study show that analysing documents and interpreting textbooks (ADIT learning model) contributes to the development of students’ historical thinking skills. This was demonstrated by the experimental group who progressed better than those of the control group. However, both groups of students were challenged, especially when dealing with multiple sources and establishing their interpretative position. The findings of this study also show that the advancement of students’ historical thinking skills was closely related to students’ complex epistemic beliefs about history. Learning through analysing documents and interpreting textbooks, as well as using web-based historical sources, has proven to foster students’ historical thinking skills.</p>

History Teacher Readiness in Applying Historical Thinking Skills in Secondary School

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Khairunnajwa Binti Samsudin ◽  
Mohd Mahzan Bin Awang ◽  
Anuar Bin Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Procedural Knowledge ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Historical Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Pedagogical Knowledge ◽  
History Teachers ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Years Of Teaching Experience

This article aims to study on the readiness of history teachers to inculcate historical thinking skills among students. This study focused on four aspects which includes 1) Procedural Knowledge, and 2) Pedagogical Knowledge. Thus, to achieve the purpose of the study, quantitative methods are used. Questionnaires were distributed to 30 history teachers in a secondary school in Batu Pahat district. The results showed that there were no significant differences between teachers who were trained to teach History and those who are not. However, there was a significant difference between teachers with ten years of teaching experience with the readiness of history teachers.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of Participation in a Blog for Extra-curricular activities for Developing Students’ Critical thinking skills: A Case of Secondary School Students: فاعلية المشاركة في مدونة إلكترونية للأنشطة غير الصفية في تنمية مهارات التفكير الناقد لدى طالبات الصف الثالث الثانوي بمدينة جدة

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wafa Abed M Al-Harbi, Sanaa Saleh Askool
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Extra Curricular Activities ◽  
Experimental Group

This study aims to identify the effectiveness of participation in a blog for extra-curricular activities for developing the critical thinking skills of third secondary students in Jeddah. The sample consisted of (100) students from several schools in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia randomly selected and divided into (50) experimental group, (50) control group. The study used the Semi-experimental method and conducted the Watson and Glaser test for critical thinking. The results of the study showed that there were statistically significant differences (0.05) among the experimental group (individual and cooperative) For the officer in the brother Bar dimensional test critical thinking skills for the benefit of the experimental group because of its effect for the use of a typical blog (single, cooperative).

scholarly journals History Teacher Readiness in Applying Historical Thinking Skills in Secondary School

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-122
Author(s):  
Khairunnajwa binti Samsudin ◽  
Mohd Mahzan bin Awang ◽  
Anuar bin Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Procedural Knowledge ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Historical Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Pedagogical Knowledge ◽  
History Teachers ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Years Of Teaching Experience

This article aims to study on the readiness of history teachers to inculcate historical thinking skills among students. This study focused on four aspects which includes 1) Procedural Knowledge, and 2) Pedagogical Knowledge. Thus, to achieve the purpose of the study, quantitative methods are used. Questionnaires were distributed to 30 history teachers in a secondary school in Batu Pahat district. The results showed that there were no significant differences between teachers who were trained to teach History and those who are not. However, there was a significant difference between teachers with ten years of teaching experience with the readiness of history teachers.

Israeli history curriculum and the conservative - liberal pendulum

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-124
Author(s):  
Tsafrir Goldberg ◽  
David Gerwin
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
World History ◽  
Historical Thinking ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
History Curriculum ◽  
National Movement ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Analytic Stance

At sixty-four Israel is still a comparatively young nation state, just passing from the 'developing' to the 'developed' phase. It has had five different history curricula for the Jewish 'Mamlakhti' (public non-religious) and the Arab sectors, which account for the majority of the students. For the first five decades the history curriculum did not ignite much controversy. The first curriculum was a rallying curriculum centered on the Jewish national movement and the establishment of Israel. In 1975 an 'academized' curriculum incorporated historical thinking goals – a move away from just an identification stance and towards an analytic stance. The mandatory baccalaureate examination, however, pushed for memorization and coverage. The fourth curriculum in 1993 integrated Jewish and world history with a slightly greater emphasis on world history, covered Israel's first three wars, and historical Jewish Diasporas and ethnicities. One textbook in the late nineties included cases of the deportation of Palestinian civilians during Israel's independence war. The decade since the turn of the millennia has been turbulent and inconsistent. New 'heritage' projects sponsored by right-wing Ministers of Education have alternated with curriculum emphasizing critical thinking, interpretation and multiple sources. The pendulum swung from expressive populist ethnocentricity to critical inquiry and diversity and back. New policies are haphazardly and partially enforced until a rival coalition reaches power and 'debates' curricula by publicizing the attempts to undo or alter them. Little attention was given to the ways teachers or students actually enacted and perceived the curriculum.

scholarly journals The effect of the self-questioning strategy on developing contemplative thinking skills in Islamic education for female second Grade Secondary Students in Aqaba Governorate Jordan: أثر استراتيجية التساؤل الذاتي في تنمية مهارات التفكير التأملي في مادة التربية الإسلامية لدى طالبات الصف الثاني الثانوي بمحافظة العقبة بالأردن

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Basmah Abdallah Odeh Alhabahbeh
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Students ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
The Self ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Total Average

The current study aimed to identify the effect of the self-questioning strategy on developing contemplative thinking skills in Islamic education for female second Grade Secondary Students in Jordan. The study adopted the quasi-experimental approach, and the tool was a (contemplative thinking skills test), prepared by the researcher, which was applied to a random sample of two divisions from second Grade Secondary Student in the comprehensive secondary school for girls, affiliated to the Directorate of Education in the Aqaba Governorate during the academic year 2019/2020 Division C, as an experimental group, consisted of (30) students, and Division B as a control group, consisting of ( 30) students. The results of the joint variance analysis (ANCOVA) showed that there were statistically significant differences between the average of the students ’scores on the achievement test attributed to the variable of the teaching method, where the control group obtained a total average (12.03of 25) in exchange for the experimental group obtaining a total average (17.25of 25), and in favor of the group Experimental, and in light of the results of the study, the researcher recommended training the teachers on the self-questioning strategy in teaching Islamic education for its effectiveness in teaching and conducting studies dealing with the introduction of other teaching methods. 

scholarly journals The effect of using differentiated teaching strategy in the development of creative thinking skills in second secondary students in the subject of mathematics and improve attitudes towards it

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Ali Abu Obaid
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Students ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Differentiated Teaching

    The effect of using differentiated teaching strategy in the development of creative thinking skills in second secondary students in the subject of mathematics and improve attitudes towards it. To achieve the objective of the study, the researcher prepared a teacher's guide for the use of differentiated teaching strategy in teaching mathematics of the second secondary grade, , as the researcher prepared a measure of attitudes towards interpretation, The researcher used quasi- experimental approach. The study sample consisted of (80) students divided into four groups (2) experimental (male and female) and (2) control (male and female), the experimental group has been taught using differentiated teaching strategy while the control group did not use this strategy, and in the end of the experiment the Torrance Verbal Test of Creative Thinking and the trends measurement were applied on the experimental and control groups. The results of the study showed a statistically significant difference between the average scores of the experimental and control groups students in applying Torrance creative thinking test in each skill of the three creative thinking skills and on the test as a whole. As well as the trends scale towards mathematics of these differences for the experimental group students who have studied using the differentiated teaching strategy. As the results of the study showed no statistically significant differences between the average scores of the experimental group and control group students due to the variable gender. In light of the results, the researcher made a number of suggestions and recommendations.    

scholarly journals The effectiveness of constructive learning strategy in teaching social studies and citizenship on developing historical thinking skills for middle school students in the Holy Capital: فاعلية استراتيجية التعلم البنائي في تدريس الدراسات الاجتماعية على تنمية مهارات التفكير التاريخي لدى طالبات المرحلة المتوسطة بالعاصمة المقدسة

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (26) ◽  
pp. 52-27
Author(s):  
Sahar Abdulwahab Ameen, Asma Zain Al-Ahdal Sahar Abdulwahab Ameen, Asma Zain Al-Ahdal
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Historical Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Distance Teaching ◽  
Constructive Learning ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Experimental Group

The research examined the effectiveness of the constructive learning strategy in teaching social studies and citizenship on developing historical thinking skills of second-grade intermediate students. The researcher used a semi-experimental approach, and the sample consisted of (50) students from the 13TH Intermediate School in Makkah (Saudi Arabia) distributed randomly to: (25) control group, and (25) experimental group. The experimental group was taught using the constructive learning strategy, while the control group was taught in the usual way. To achieve the research goal, a teacher’s guide was prepared to teach the “Umayyad State Unit” using the constructive learning strategy, and a list of historical thinking skills appropriate for the age stage, and an achievement test in the Umayyad State Unit. Results: There were statistically significant differences at the level of 0.05 between the mean scores of the experimental group students in the pre-post measurements of the historical thinking skills test in favor of the post measurement, - existence of statistically significant differences at the level of 0.05 between the mean scores of the students of the control and experimental groups in the post-measurement of the historical thinking skills test favoring the experimental group. Recommendations: The researcher suggested a number of recommendations such as: Using the constructive learning strategy in teaching social studies and citizenship to develop historical thinking skills at all school levels, - creating an educational and classroom environment that supports the constructive learning strategy in teaching social studies and citizenship to develop historical thinking skills, making use of educational platforms in distance teaching using a constructive learning strategy, - provide opportunities to train teachers to implement strategies and models of constructive learning.

scholarly journals Development of Historical Thought in Primary Education: Analysis of an Intervention in Colombian Schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (11) ◽  
pp. 93-115
Author(s):  
Nancy Palacios Mena ◽  
◽  
Paula Bibiana García Cardona ◽  
María Lucía Mosquera ◽  
Natalia Alarcon Gama ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fourth Graders ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Historical Thinking ◽  
Initial Assessment ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Pedagogical Intervention ◽  
The Past ◽  
Better Than

The main goal of this study was to analyze the development of historical thinking abilities in two groups of fourth graders in Colombian schools. The study consisted of the design, implementation, and evaluation of a three-month pedagogical intervention. After an initial assessment, nine learning activities were implemented. An Intervention Group (IG) received the intervention, while a Control Group (CG) served as a comparison. The assessment comprised three main areas (Historical Sources, Narratives, and Change and Continuity). The results of the intervention indicated that the IG performed better than the CG in the assessment. Introducing concepts that favor historical thinking development such as working with historical sources, identifying change and continuity, and constructing narratives, seems to promote the construction of historical knowledge in a complex way. Pedagogical interventions focused on the development of these concepts provide information on the progression of learning and the ability of children to understand the past.

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