HISTORY

What is Geography?
What are the fields of
Geography?
Give practical
application of
From the assignment, the teacher will
distribute paper strips among learners
and require them to write the news
headline that happened on their
birthdates. Then, the learners will
post in the blackboard.
1. What happened on your birthday? Or What was
happening on the day that you were born?
2. Share your insights about your birthday headline.
3. Which branch of Social Science does our activity
represents
- From the Greek word “historia” which means
“inquiry”, knowledge acquired by investigation.
- It is the systematic inquiry of man’s recorded past for the
purpose of establishing causal relationships, validating
historical facts, and reconstruction of chronological
events.
- It is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well
as the memory, discovery, collection, organization,
presentation and interpretation of information about these
events.
- Herodotus is regarded as the Father of
history,” while the name of the subject is
taken from the Greek word “istoria” which
translates to knowing by inquiry.
- Scholars who write about history are called
HISTORIANS.
Methods of Creating History
1.Positivism
• Embraces human agency in history. Uses sources to
provide and accurate and complete vision of the past.
Also embraces and empathetic approach towards people
in the past.
2. Narrative – Chronology
• The creation of narratives of the past- analysis plays
less role as the role of accidents is most important.
3. Biography –Hagiography
• The “Great Men” method which creates chronological
narratives. Often look at the agency of one individual in
history.
4. Dialectics – Analysis
• These are created which become orthodoxies. New theses
than arrive to challenge these-revisionism- and a synthesis is
produced from the old and the new.
• The synthesis becomes the new thesis or paradigm and the
process of clashes (dialectics) repeats.
5. Meta- Narrative –Total history
• Works of the Annales school are characterized by a multi-
layered approach which seek to integrate long-term, mid term
and short term factors in a “total history”.
• There is an effort to explain large amounts of human history
through the application of theory of theory and social
sciences. Comparative studies of similar events in desperate
places.
6. Negativism
• Rejects human agency in historical affairs. Rejects all sources.
Rejects the possibility of empathetic understanding of the past
Social Implications
• It is important to study history so one may learn
about past human behavior that is relevant to the
intellectual growth and development of an individual.
• Studying the events of the past gives us an
understanding on how the world came to be, not only
in your world but around the world including all
cultures of people as well as nature.
• By learning about the causes and effects of events in
history, people can learn better ways to deal with
conflict among nations and individuals.
• Studying the history of environmental changes can
enhance a healthier lifestyle for mankind as well as
prevent the extinction of plants and animals, which
could disturb our ecosystem.
• Although human behavior is unpredictable at times, a
better understanding through the study of history can
provide valuable insight for our future generations.
COMPLETE THE ANALOGY:
Scientist: Test tube
Teacher: Chalk
Historian:
1. What is the connection between word-pairs?
2 What is the tool of historian?
3. Why is a historian like a detective?
4. What is Historiography?
5. Differentiate primary sources from secondary
sources
Do you find History useful to your daily
lives? Why did you say so?
During this past week, what were the
hottest issues that the different fields of
History examined?
Complete the sentence prompts.
History is the study of ______________.
Among the fields of History, I am interested at ____________
because I’m fascinated with ______________.
An example of primary sources that I will deal with
_____________ History are ________.
An example of secondary source that I will deal with
___________History are ______.