MABINI COLLEGES INC.

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Daet, Camarines Norte

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
1st Sem., S.Y.2020-2021

GEC 2 – Readings in Philippine History

MODULE 1
CONTEXT ANALYSIS

Name of Student: Fatima S. Asis

Course/ year: BSN 1 – Block B

Class Schedule: MW 10:00-11:30 AM

1. What is history? How is your understanding of history different from what is explained
in this lesson?
• History can be briefly described as an study of past events in order to explain
and predict the pattern of their occurrence. As the great archaeologist said,
"You cannot study the present nor plan for the future without knowing the
past.” Hence, history though full of facts and dates, is an significant aspect of
creation with a great deal of scope for enthusiasts. Based on my understanding,
contemplating history causes us figure out how to comprehend others. History
isn't only a fundamental prologue to your own nation, ethnic legacy, and
heritage. It's additionally a significant instrument with regards to
understanding the individuals who are not the same as us. Global, national,
and local history books assist us with seeing how different societies influence
our own.
2. What does a historian do? As a student of history, what do you think will be your
“duties”?
• Historians are academics and researchers who study historical events. Their
primary objective is to investigate, study, examine, interpret, and archive
realities of past mankind's history. Furthermore, a Historian may investigate
and explore history from a particular perspective, such as political, artistic, or
economical. On the other hand, they can concentrate on specific eras or
periods, such as Pre-Columbian, Medieval, or Classical ages. As a student of
history, I think my duties would be assimilate the ethics that I can gain much
valued knowledge from historical information and do my part to discover the
origins and heroes of our nation as a way of acknowledging it and giving them a
significance.
3. What role does history take in the study of Philippine society, culture and identity?
• Our history has influenced our society, our culture and our identity. In order to
grasp our own perspective, we need to look back at what has happened to our
ancestors. By studying our history, it helps one to gain useful insights into the
challenges of our contemporary world. Many of the issues, features and
characteristics of modern Philippine society can be traced back to historical
questions about our colonial history, as well as our pre-colonial culture.
 4. How did the word “history” come about? Discuss its etymology and evolution.
• History is a word of multiple meanings, all related to the past. When used as
the name of a field of study, history traditionally refers to the study and
interpretation of the written record of past human activity, people, societies,
and civilizations leading up to the present day. More broadly, as explained in
the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, "history in the wider sense is all that has
happened, not merely all the phenomena of human life, but those of the natural
world as well. It is everything that undergoes change; and as modern science
has shown that there is nothing absolutely static, therefore, the whole universe,
and every part of it, has its history." The term history comes from the Greek
historia (ἱστορία), "an account of one's inquiries," and shares that etymology
with the English word story. The short version is that the term history has
evolved from an ancient Greek verb that means “to know,” says the Oxford
English Dictionary’s Philip Durkin.

Citations:
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/History

https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/4824551/history-word-
origins/%3famp=true

INSTRUCTION: Research on what Teodoro Agoncillo, Reynaldo Ileto, and Renato Constantino
said about history. Do you agree with them?

• "History deals with the past, not with the future. We use history to avoid the
mistakes of the past, not to recreate the very same events. You cannot." One of
his lines about history from Teodoro A. Agoncillo. While the work "Pasyon and
Revolution" of Reynaldo C. Ileto’s 1979 has been hailed as the single most
important monograph on the Philippines in the last century, the one book that
defined his career. Naturally, a ground-breaking book such as this has an equal
share of detractors, who predicted that Ileto would be blighted by the Cornell
curse, of being a “one book wonder.” Fortunately, Ileto has broken the spell and
has launched a new book, “Knowledge and Pacification”— his fourth, if we are
to count his little-known monograph on Datu Uto as a book. And lastly, the
famous and rare line of Renato Constantino was “The true Filipino is a
decolonized Filipino.”

I agreed to them because they taught us to reexamine our colonial history, to

rectify it and learn from the past. They wanted us, Filipinos, to have a valuable
memory of past to propel the Filipino's mission for certified nationhood.

Citations:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/opinion.inquirer.net/103363/forgetting-part-
remembering/amp