Teaching Local History in History Courses from the Perspective of Secondary School History Teachers and Students in Kohkiloyeh and Boyerahmad Provinces
Subject Areas : Educational PsychologyMostafa Ghaderi 1 , Abdollah Mahmoodi Moazam 2 , Fatemeh Havas Beigi 3 , Khalil Gholami 4
1 - دانشیار رشته مطالعات برنامه درسی دانشگاه کردستان
2 - دانشآموخته کارشناسیارشد رشته برنامهریزی آموزشی، دانشگاه کردستان، سنندج، ایران
3 - دانشجوی دکترای تخصصی مطالعات برنامه درسی دانشگاه علامه طباطبائی، تهران،ایران
4 - استادیار برنامهریزی آموزشی دانشگاه کردستان، دانشکده علوم انسانی و اجتماعی، گروه علوم تربیتی، سنندج، ایران
Keywords: teachers, student, local history, history course syllabus, secondary studies,
Abstract :
The main purpose of this study was to investigate teaching different dimensions of local history in history courses from the perspective of secondary school history teachers and students. To conduct the research, 16 teachers were selected purposefully and 285 students were randomly selected. The data collection tools for the quantitative data were two researcher made questionnaires for history teachers and students. The content validity was checked to determine the validity, and the Cronbach's alpha was measured to determine the reliability, which was 68.2 and 97.3 for the questionnaire number one and two, respectively. The qualitative data, in addition to the open-ended questions of the students’ questionnaires, and semi-structured interviews with 8 history teachers, were analyzed through grounded theory. The results showed that students and teachers have positive attitudes towards teaching the local history of the province. From the students points of view, teaching political history have the most importance and economical history has the leastimportance as compared to other dimensions. History teachers found teaching cultural-social history the most important and teaching economical history as the least important dimension of local history. Morever, among the teachers and students points of view regarding the importance of teaching local history in the history courses were: pedagogical necessity, understanding one’s living environment, meeting the spiritual needs of individuals, strengthening the spirit of patriotism, representation and preservation of local identity and multilateral development of the community. In order to teach local history, history teachers proposed the following methods: cooperative teaching-based teaching-learning method, narrating historical stories by the teacher (oral history), and teaching by electronical resources
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Ahmad, A. R., Rahim, A., Seman, A. A., & Salleh, & M., J. (2010). Malaysian Secondary School History Curriculum and its Contribution towards Racial Integration. International Conference on Learner Diversity: Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 7(C), 488–493.
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Hertberg, H.H. (1985).Students, method and materials of instruction. In M.T.Downey (ED.).History in the Schools.National Council for the Social Studies Bulletin 74.Washington, DC: National Council for the Social Studies. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service NO.ED 254477).
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Lee, G. (2014). Effecting Student Learning for Historical Understanding. (Published doctoral dissertation), College of Professional Studies Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts.
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VanSledright, B. (2003). Teaching of history. In J. Guthrie (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of Education, (pp. 1055-1058). New York: Macmillan Reference.
Vickers, E. (2002). The Politics of History Education in Hong Kong: the case of local history. International Journal of Educational Research, 37, 587–602.
Walker, W. (2015). The Role of Local History in the Curriculum at a Rural, Southeastern Community College. (Published doctoral dissertation), College of Education, Walden University.
Wesley, E.B. (1942).Teaching the social studies.Boston: Heath.
Zokaei, M.S. (2002). Theory and Method in Qualitative Research, Journal of Social Sciences, (17).
Zuniga, C., O’ Donoghue, G., & Clarke. T., (2015). A Study of the Secondary School History Curriculum in Chile from Colonial Times to the Present.Sense Publishers, Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei