READING IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY

Identification of
Historical Importance of
the Text
ALDOVINO, ALLANAH NICOLE T.
ALEGRE, JOSE MARIA C.
ANDAL, JENNY P.
Identification of Historical Importance

TOPIC OUTLINE
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
HISTORICAL METHODOLOGY
CRITERIA ON ASSESSING SIGNIFICANCE OF
SOURCES
ISSUES ON ASSESSING HISTORICAL
SIGNIFICANCE
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WHAT IS HISTORICAL
SIGNIFICANCE?

Used to evaluate what was significance about

selected events, people and developments in the
past.
Called the forgotten concept in history
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WHAT IS HISTORICAL
SIGNIFICANCE?
A decision that modern people make about what is
important from our past.
Used to describe people, event places and dates from the
past that is particularly important.
Different people can decide that different things are
significant, they can disagree that a specific idea, person
svent or place is important.
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HISTORICAL METHODOLOGY
THE PROCESS BY WHICH HISTORIANS GATHER EVIDENCE
AND FORMULATE IDEAS ABOUT THE PAST.

What evidence that we have that supports the story?

How do we know if the stories or articles written in our
history books actually happened?
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HISTORICAL METHODOLOGY

Historical Evidences can have a variety of forms:

Primary resources (original documents, artifacts, other
peices of information under study) from letters written
by soldiers, to people related to him, government
documents, photographs
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HISTORICAL METHODOLOGY

Secondary sources ( contain useful information, but

typically involve an analysis of primary source
material) ex. Magazines
Oral Tradition (consists of stories that are not written
down, but passed on verbally)
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HOW DO PEOPLE DECIDE
WHAT IS SIGNIFICANT?
There are various ways that people decide that
something is significant based on different sets of criteria
that historians' formulated.

Historical significance is typically assessed by judging

an event against pre-defined criteria.
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IS HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
THE SAME TO EVERYONE?
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CRITERIA ON ASSESSING
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE

CHRISTINE COUNSELL'S 5 R'S

OF SIGNIFICANCE (2004)
REMEMBERED
Was the event important at some stage within
the collective memory of groups?
RESONANCE
Who were affected by the event?
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CRITERIA ON ASSESSING
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE

RESULTING IN CHANGE
Does it have consequences for the future?
REVEALING
Does it reveal some aspects of the past?
RELEVANCE
Is it important to people living at the time?
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CRITERIA ON ASSESSING
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE

PARTINGTON'S CRITERIA OF
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE (1980)

IMPORTANCE
to people living at the time
PROFUNDITY
How deeply people's lives were affected by it?
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CRITERIA ON ASSESSING
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE

QUANTITY
How many lives were affected?
RELEVANCE
The extent to which the event was contributed to
an increased understanding of present life.
DURABILITY
For how long people's lives affected?
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CRITERIA ON ASSESSING
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE

"N A M E " CRITERIA OF

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE

N- ovelty
A- pplicability
M- emory
E- ffects
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CRITERIA ON ASSESSING
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
NOVELTY
the word “novelty” means “the quality of being
new, original, or unusual”
When an event or person was mentioned by the
people alive at the time, it usually shows us that
they considered them to be particularly
remarkable.
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CRITERIA ON ASSESSING
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE

APPLICABILITY
Things from the past can suddenly be considered
significant because people have realised that they
are applicable to something happening in the
present.
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CRITERIA ON ASSESSING
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE

MEMORY
Things often become significant because they have
been remembered in a particular way over time.
EFFECTS
Things are frequently considered to be significant
because a lot of people have been affected by
them.
 "THE MORE CRITERIA
SOMETHING MEETS, THE MORE
SIGNIFICANT IT IS"
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ISSUES ON ASSESSING
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE

Our view on historical significance are shaped by

contemporary context and depends on our own values,
interest and knowledge.

History is written by the victor. Historical significance.

Is how we define the past events that current writer of
history deems important.
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ISSUES ON ASSESSING
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE

Historical significance is relative and varies from

location to location of the one doing the evaluation
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