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Dr. Tanto Sukardi, M.Hum. is a Lecturer at the Department of  History Education, Faculty of
Education and Teacher Training (FKIP) Muhammadiyah University of  Purwokerto (UMP) in
Central Java, Indonesia. He can be reached at: tanto_sukardi@yahoo.com

A Future-Oriented Perspective and
History Teaching Alternative

in Globalization Era:
the Context of Indonesia

Tanto Sukardi

ABSTRACT: In the current globalization era, we witness quick changes in all sectors of life, and
for the society which is conscious of these changes the mastery of science and technology has
become a must. The areas of  science and technology chosen are certainly the ones commonly
perceived to provide real contribution to the struggle with the changes. With reference to the science
of  history, the big question which arises is: is the science of  history still needed in this globalization
era considering most of its objects belong to the past? One of the answers to the question is in order
to contextualize the values of history education an alternative in the teaching of history should be
generated in the hope that future generation will be aware of the social values for the basis of
predicting the future. Hence, learning history means understanding the past for better understanding
of  the current so that the future can be grabbed much better.
KEY WORDS: current globalization, science and technology, science of  history, future generation
and understanding the past for better understanding of the current.

Introduction

Today, Indonesian people are required to be sensitive over the quick changes in
almost all aspects of  life. Many believe that it is the only way for them to survive the
changes. As a matter of fact, globalization calls for every member of the society to
always quickly and correctly respond the changes they encounter. Besides, self-
reliance and dignity as well as deep religious faith will lead society members to be
more independent, resilient and competitive, both locally and globally (Kartasasmita,
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Globalization itself is basically triggered by three main factors, which are
usually called three engines of  globalization. They comprise technology mastery,
capital ownership and managerial competence. The three are interconnected
demands. The development of new technology will facilitate the transfer and
expansion of  capital from one country to another. At the same time, with the mastery
of modern management and the strong support of large capital and sophisticated
technology, the economists and businessmen are able to prepare their companies
and select the right cooperation strategies to win the competition (Micklethwait &
Wooldridge, 2000:29).

In the globalization era, an enormous shift of paradigm has occurred in how
people view productivity in relation to a country’s natural resources. In the past, a
country’s resources are viewed from the perspective of  the natural resources a
country possesses. At present, a country’s resources hinge upon the ability of  human
resources to process the natural resources into value added products or services
which make the best use of  science, investment, ideas and innovation (Harrison &
Huntington, 2000:5).

In such a situation, the mastery of science and technology plays a central role in
helping a nation anticipate changes, so that it will not be left behind by other nations.
And in fact many nations are now racing toward the highest achievement in science
and technology. This is also in accordance with what K.J. Hatten & A. Rosentahl
(2000:5) say that a certain degree of science and technology mastery can boost
creativity of a nation.

In order to master science and technology, education plays an important role
and governments should prioritize it. For the reason, education can hopefully nurture
every aspect of  human beings, ranging from physical and mental health, intelligence,
social sensitivity, responsibility and spiritual life. Therefore, through education a
government can shape its people into independent, critical and creative individuals.
This is especially significant in the changing world in which educational and economic
innovation prevails. In this case, education also serves a driving power to improve
the quality of creativity and imagination as an expression of freedom and personal
standards. More opportunities must be given to the young generation to explore and
innovate (UNESCO, 1996:94).

Moreover K. Ohmae (1990:195) states that every responsible government has
the obligation to prepare its people to confidently enter the era of globalization.
One of the possible ways to take is providing education which enables the people to
obtain as much knowledge as possible. A good control over information and
technology will enable a nation to successfully compete in this constantly changing
world.

With respect to the history, the questions now are, “Is history still useful for the
young generation to face this changing world?”, “What kind of teaching method can we
devise in order to ‘present’ the past in today’s world?”, and “What kind of teaching
orientation do we need to anticipate the quick changes of the world?”. If we take a close
look at the questions, we can see that the underlying problems are all related to the



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understanding of values which in turn will make history a science serving to clarify
today’s perspective and future’s vision (Lapian, 1976:3).

The General Functions of History Teaching

People commonly perceive history as identical to family tree or even to folklore.
Such a perception leads people to study the history of kings and their descendents,
the origins of kingdoms, or great people of the past, which occasionally mix it with
some irrational elements. In such a perception, history does not reflect a
comprehensive past experience of  a community. A number of  varied factors are
indeed involved in the making of history (Abdoelgani, 1963:53).

If  history taught at school is the one viewed that way, the curricular contents
and its material development will evolve around dates and years of historical events,
king biographies, stories of great people and battles. The logical consequence of
that kind of perception is that history will not bring about understanding of the
underlying values to students. History teaching will be of trivial benefits. Besides as
the teaching contents, it will not enhance learning creativity among students. History
is not more than a boring lecture. And worst of  all, students fail to see the values and
uses of  learning history.

Ideally, though history is mostly concerned with the past, whose actual objects
are the totality of past experience of a society; learning history must not be perceived
merely in terms of the past for the sake of the past. Learning history should certainly
be aimed at exploring and identifying past experience of the predecessors for the
sake of the current and the future and thus at making the future generation wise in
facing their lives (Abdoelgani, 1963:68).

There are three main functions of  studying history, namely: (1) Recreational
Function. Historical events which are conveyed in a narrative, descriptive and
informative forms can be interesting to the youth, especially if reported in a
fascinating language. In this sense, history has artistic and literary values which
serve recreation function; (2) Scientific Function. When the past facts and events are
written on interpretive judgment of facts using a multidimensional approach and
involve critical investigation, then history meets the requirements of  a science. For
a reconstruction of history which meets the scientific standards, satisfactory
understanding of method is required; and (3) Didactic Function. History may bear a
didactic value when it contains past facts and events which give rise to certain
effects on the youth, such as the rise of patriotism or nationalism. Through history
as well old values can be passed on to the young generation (Su’ud, 1990:27-30).

In this respect, we need to notice Albert Hyma’s conviction that history is
principally a branch of science which discusses the development of human beings’
society, covering political system, social structure, economy, ideas, arts and their
entire experience (Hyma, 1981:24). History in this sense refers to all past experience,
both physically and spiritually. In order to comprehend this multifaceted life, a
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be analyzed into its componential parts and its parts scrutinized to perceive their
intricate relationships (Kartodirdjo, 1990b:32).

For the reason, instructional materials comprise among other things the changes
occurring in the complex society of the past. Given that history deals with a
complicated past events and needs a very careful and painstaking analysis, teacher
and pupil will get involved in an interesting learning process.

As far as learning is concerned, it is very imperative for us to mention the
Benjamin S. Bloom’s Taxonomy, a schematic classification of  hierarchical
competence or skills. The two important domains in the field of history teaching
are cognitive and affective. Of  the two, cognitive domain is considered to play more
important role, as it leads to the actual development of  intellectual capacity. Besides,
cognitive domain is the best rational indicator of  general intellectual competence.
Six components of cognitive domain are knowledge, comprehension, application,
analysis, synthesis and evaluation (Bloom, 1956:3).

Knowledge is the ability to know, with observable elements, like the ability to
memorize and to recall. Comprehension is equal to understanding with the components
of  ability to translate, interpret and conclude. Application is the ability to use concept,
principles and procedures to solve a problem. Analysis includes the ability to break
down a concept into its parts and spot the relations among the parts. Synthesis is the
ability to put the parts into a (new) entity. And evaluation refers the ability to compare
values, ideas, methods and so on to reach a judgment (Bloom, 1956:3).

An ideal teaching of history at school facilitates learners to know how to
study history well. In practice, the teaching of  history may commence from
introducing facts and data, giving definitions clearly and then developing concepts
related to the societal aspects of the past. As a result, the teaching of history
equals the activity carried out to boost intellectual capacity which is characterized
by the ability to recognize facts specifically, to construct concepts and finally to
determine conclusions and generalization (Garvey & Krug, 1977:15).

In Indonesia, the teaching of history begins at the elementary education which
seeks the rise of  pride of  their society’s achievement. Through the teaching, the
experience of their ancestors – which is full of educative values – can be understood
and owned. At the junior high, history teaching is projected more to enable students
to know understand the development of  their society. As for the level of  senior
high, the teaching is designed to nurture the critical attitude towards any past events
in order to aptly react to the current social phenomena (Depdikbud RI, 1993:151-
152).

The instructional objectives are formulated upon the ideal assumptions about
the process of  understanding history. In other words, the objectives should reflect
students’ temporal and spatial awareness about any past events which in turn will
lead to national pride and identity (Kartodirdjo, 1990a:17).

A wrong understanding of history will result in inability of the young generation
to give appropriate response to the changes, so that they will not be able to cope
with the problems they face. If  this was the case the teaching of  history does not
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children. In consequence, we need to seek a teaching strategy capable of  creating
creative and critical generation. This is especially true when considering the fact
that we are now faced with problems requiring a number of responses at once
(Soedjatmoko, 1991:87).

The Main Goals of History Teaching

To maintain the cultural character and values of  a nation, the understanding of
history is needed at whatever level of civilization. The more advanced a nation is,
the more necessary it is to comprehend and realize its normative history, as an
important component of educational objectives. The teaching of history is indeed
the application of  history as a science for a pragmatic purpose. For the reason, its
realization needs to be selected and adjusted with reference to the values and
meanings of the existing educational goals. In other words, the outcomes of the
history instruction should be in line with the overall objectives of the national
education (Sasyardi, 1990:54).

Specifically, the objectives of  the national education can be found in the Act
Number 20/2003 on National Education System (Undang-Undang No. 20 Tahun
2003 tentang Sistem Pendidikan Nasional). In one of  its chapter, it says:

National Education serves the function of developing the competence and shaping the
character and civilization of  a dignified nation, in the framework of  educating the nation’s
life, and directed towards the development of  the learners’ potential in order to make
them pious believers of  the Sole God, have respectable behavior, be healthy, well informed,
responsive, creative, independent, and become responsible and democratic citizens
(Chapter 3 Indonesian Act Number 20/2003 or UU No. 20 Tahun 2003).

To achieve the objectives, every element inside any educational organizations
is called forth to show good quality competence. School as one of  the elements has
also the obligation to carry out its duty in a quality manner. This holds true for the
history teachers in doing their instructional function. They must perform their jobs
professionally, especially in the teaching process. This processional undertaking is
characterized by satisfactory mastery of the teaching materials, teaching strategies
and motivating power. By so doing, history teachers can materialize the ideal history
teaching process toward the ideal outcomes (Supardan, 2005).

To answer global challenges through educational efforts, UNESCO (United
Nations for Economic, Social and Cultural Organization) has set foundations as the
stepping stones for every nation in the world. In its document entitled Learning:
Treasure Within, UNESCO established the four pillars of education, namely: (1)
Learning to know, which goes to the extent of  understanding the how to and
communicating it to others; (2) Learning to do, which also includes boosting creativity,
productivity, resilience, controlling professional ability and being ready for any
changes; (3) Learning to be, which covers developing self-potential like independence,
rational capacity, imaginative power, aesthetic awareness, discipline and
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the reasons of  living in harmony in plural community, appreciating differences in
spiritual life and showing respect to other ethnic or political group members
(UNESCO, 1996:85-89).

In response to this multilateral policy, Indonesian government has taken any
necessary measures, like passing the Act Number 14 Year 2005 on Teachers and
Lecturers (Undang-Undang No.14 Tahun 2005 tentang Guru dan Dosen). This act is
devised to enhance the teachers and lecturers quality. This is done on the fact that
teachers are required to possess certain traits which enable them to help learners
attain the four pillars.

According to Widayati’s analysis, in her paper “Elementary Education
Reform”, the crucial characteristics of teachers in this era are: (1) perceiving
profession of teacher as a genuine life call [genuineness]; (2) always trying to give
positive reward in order that learners are able to give self-reward; (3) trying not
only to be sympathetic but also empathic; and (4) realizing that as teachers, they
need to have the ability to be a learner (Widayati, 2002:29). In short, teachers
should fully realize that teacher is a profession, not merely a job.

History teachers are also required to realize that they are responsible to facilitate
their pupil to attain the outlined instructional potentials of  history, namely: (1)
history teaching and intellectual education; and (2) history teaching and education
of  nation’s moral. Referring to the first potential, the teaching of  history does not
only present facts and collective experience of the society in the past, but also
provides intellectual exercises to generate creative thinking over the causes and
effects of the past events.

Interpreting historical events of course plays a strategic role in providing
intellectual exercise to the learners. Critical thinking over historical events may
embrace training to formulate, to conclude and to analyze social symptoms appearing
during a critical period in the history of a nation. Hence this potential emphasizes
intellectual teaching and reasoning (Suryo, 1990:5). As for the second potential, the
teaching of history should be aimed at humanistic education. Understanding
historical facts and events must lead to the effort to foster and develop the character
of a nation (nation building). Through understanding and implanting historical
values, it is hoped that there will evolve the spirit to love their country and even the
will to self-sacrifice for the sake of  a nation’s interests.

The important thing to consider when teaching historical values is that, since
history learning can be a means of humanistic education, teaching process needs an
appropriate strategy so that the intended messages can be delivered in a natural and
easy manner. This is especially true, since the main and ultimate objective of  history
teaching is not the mastery of historical facts and events by the pupil, but the shaping
of attitude by means of its inherent values. The outcomes should not be measured
only with the ability of the pupil to correctly mention dates, facts and events in the
history, but also with the understanding of  values which influence their behavior as
good and responsible citizens (Sasyardi, 1990:12).

Therefore the ultimate goal of history teaching activities is generating good
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called for by laws and social norms as citizens of  a country, like conforming the
regulations, paying taxes, defending their country and so on. Emphasis is given to
the acceptance of  certain values living in a society. Observing local norms and
appreciating local values and beliefs can be the goal of history learning. Through
understanding the social changes in the past, students are expected to be able to
predict changes in the future. With the ability at hand, future changes can hopefully
be prevented or attempted as wished.

A number of teaching strategies can be tried in the hope that student learning
process will run well. An example of teaching strategy that can be attempted is
constructive strategy. This strategy is derived from critical theory and postmodernist
paradigm which offer modified instruction emphasizing on the ability of the students
to solve real current problems of  the society. In the view of  critical theory, the
teaching of history seek the achievement of  knowledge interest, taking the form of
control over social issues like information, facts, concepts and social theories (Banks,
1990:187).

Further step may then be taken to understand the underlying meaning of
knowledge interest, namely the process of knowing and the agent of knowing. The
latest two interests can be achieved by means of history teaching process which
involves actual participation of learners to do the action and reflection, in a
constructive process, of contemporary social issues. Through this constructive
learning strategy, self-reflection will occur critically, so it is hoped that the process
of  comprehensive understanding of  social issues will take place. Thus power is no
more dominated by dominant groups like teachers, lecturers and curriculum
developers, but hopefully spread out even to the pupil as the knower (Supriatna,
2005).

It is hoped too that the teaching process in the class will bring about behavioral
effects on the pupils, both instructional and nurturant ones. These effects are related
to the students’ mastery of the teaching materials and their sensitivity over social
issues. Students’ social sensitivity here theoretically refers to Scott’s concepts
concerning empathy, pro-social or morality (in Budimansyah, 2007; and Winataputra,
2007). Empathy can be seen from the perspectives of  affective, cognitive and
communicative. Affective element is related to a person’s capacity to feel what
other is feeling or experiencing. Cognitive element refers to a person’s capacity to
recognize other’s affective state and his/her viewpoint in order to understand the
reasons of  the viewpoint. Finally, the communicative element of  empathy refers to
a person’s ability to pass on or communicate his feeling to others.

In our current social life, a great number of  contemporary social issues need to
be addressed by all components of the nation. This of course demands strong sense
of  social empathy on the part of  the people, including the students. For the purpose,
the teaching of  history must enable students to put oneself  in someone else’s shoes
or, in other words, to reciprocate positions of  others (Zainul, 2008). If  the capacity
of  empathy, either in the affective, cognitive or communicative sense, becomes an
integral part of  the pupil’s personality, we can expect the emergence of  a new
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can guide them to the power of making sensible moral judgment, moral decision
making and moral action in their daily life (Wiriaatmadja, 2002).

The teaching of history is consequently obliged to inculcate moral values to the
students. Referring to Scott’s opinion, moral education must eventually result in
moral capacity of the students, which, according to him, comprises four important
domains, namely moral sensitivity, moral judgment, moral decision making and moral
action (in Budimansyah, 2007; and Winataputra, 2007). To assure the achievement
of the result, the teaching of history may make use of actual social issues as the core
material of instruction. Social issues are generally viewed from the perspectives of
social identity, social solidarity, nationalism, patriotism, democracy and the ideal
type of a society which results from the process of history learning.

Individual and social morality, which closely relate to the actual social reality
in the era (time) and place (spatial) where the people live, may be intermingled to
form comprehensive instructional materials. These can even be attached to the
universal issues and values. This follows that the discussion of moral sensitivity
may traverse geographical and time borders, such as the discussion on the readiness
to keep a distance with prejudice about people from different countries and/or of
different ages. Moral action relates more to the actual behavior of  an individual or
a group in daily life which reflects mutual understanding. These are the intended
instructional and nurturant outcomes of the teaching of history (Razaq Ahmad &
Suwirta, 2007).

The Future Oriented History Teaching

One big question to be addressed here is which perspective or orientation of historical
value understanding that needs to be developed in the education of a nation? As we
all know, in line with the arrival of  globalization era, Indonesian people are
encouraged to undergo social transformation as a result of information rush from
every part of  the world. These transformations take place in all aspects of  life.
These phenomena should of course be anticipated with the improvement of human
resources, in terms of both intellectual capacity and character of a nation. This is
done in order to avoid the gap between the quality of  human resources and the
challenges they are facing.

This task is indeed very demanding for those involved in the world of education,
including the education of  history. In this respect, the history education should
work out a new perspective in the process of interpreting history which of course
affects the teaching outcomes. A change also needs to be attempted in the perspective
orientation of the teaching of historical values, form the currently adopted past-
oriented to the future-oriented (Kartodirdjo, 1990b:215).

Inaccurate interpretation of historical facts can undermine the function of
history as a means to clarify today and to predict the future. In such a situation,
history loses the ability to clearly reflect the self, but in the opposite biases the
picture of the self. The glorious past is depicted in such a way just to divert people
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coping with problems. With that kind of treatment, history has the potential of
losing its dynamics. The glorious past loses its functional value as an inspiring
power. Instead it discourages and leads the young generation to be passive and
apathetic. Experience tells us that generation of that kind prefers to retreat to
romanticism and get themselves into oblivion (Kartodirdjo, 1990b; and
Wiriaatmadja, 2002).

In an attempt to infuse spirit to the young generation, national identity and
awareness as the foundation of  national development should continuously be
strengthened to assure its achievement. In other words, once the young generation
is spirited national development can attain its objectives. This is the significance of
history instruction: infusing spirit and inspiring breakthroughs (Soedjatmoko,
1976:14).

A new alternative to the orientation is very important to take in view of the fact
that education is principally designed to prepare a better future for the new
generation. The education of history as a part of national education must be in line
with that vision. The conviction that the past is the best guide to the future is relevant
with the perspective of history teaching which sees life process as a continuous
linier flowing from the past to the future. Perspective of  this kind also strengthens
the assumption that the future is very close to the present and the present is very
close to the past (Abdoelgani, 1980:2).

On the very ground can the formulation of the image of the future be established
and placed in understanding the value of  history. In attempt to place the image of
the future Polak’s concept of  yesterday’s tomorrow can in this respect be explored. In
his concept, an image of  the future can be explored from historical events (in Suryo,
1990:8). In other words, the teaching materials of history can be carefully selected
in order to assure the future oriented ones. With the future oriented materials at
hand, we can correlate the historical events relevant with the current actual issues.

Efforts to use the future oriented perspective have done by the ancient nations
like the Greece, Jewish and also by intellectuals, philosophers and writers of  the
past. In the domestic literature, the poet Josodipuro with his Jangka Jayabaya is very
well-known. His study explains that logical and critical observation and
contemplation may bring about great effects on the actual reality of the future (in
Kartodirdjo, 1990b).

From the historical point of  view, globalization has made borders of  time and
space blur and contemporary perspective strong. It is very understandable then that
the feeling and the perspective of the past has no ample room for consideration, in
contradiction with the future perspective which receives much attention. It is quite
natural when Sartono Kartodirdjo asserts that today there exist a trend to put aside
historical vista or optic which produces present-mindedness and cause futurologist
orientation in human realm metahistoric and speculative (Kartodirdjo, 1997:122).

In order to yield better effectiveness, the teaching materials of history must
portray more detailed events and provide the details with wider future perspective
and orientation. It means that a comprehensive perspective is integrated with the
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present angles of  image, expectation, projection and trends, and prediction of  future
civilization of a nation (Abdoelgani, 1980:11).

As a matter of  fact, we have limitless materials to support the purpose, either
for the history of Indonesia and of the world. The emphasis on the future orientation
and perspective is expected to contribute to the construction of future of the nation
which prepare it for a globalized life. For the reason, history teaching is still needed
as an endeavor to set a robust ground to encounter the future (Wiriaatmadja, 2002;
and Razaq Ahmad & Suwirta, 2007).

One important thing to reiterate here is that the present history teaching promises
the formation of  attitude and behavior of  ideal citizens as expected by the
community. To achieve the goal, the focus of  its teaching program should be on
provision of  learning experience useful to help pupil to understand time perspective.
This will lead pupil realize that: (1) physical environment determines when and
how people live; (2) people have to try to wisely adjust, use, and control energy and
natural resources around them; (3) change is an inevitable part of the society; (4) it
is a must to involve themselves in the power generating changes to the society and
civilization; (5) the change leads to interdependence among people and among nations
in the world so that people need to appreciate and respect different values, have
responsibility for others and cooperate with other people or nations in all aspects of
life; and (6) people need to appreciate and respect the equality of  race, religion and
culture (Hyma, 1981; Penyarikan, 1986; Wiriaatmadja, 2002; Supriatna, 2005;
and Razaq Ahmad & Suwirta, 2007).

Conclusion

The globalization era, which is characterized by the rapid flow of information
crossing the borders of countries, has brought about considerable and fundamental
changes in all aspects of  society. This condition must be anticipated by equipping
the new generation with satisfactory intellectual capacity, as well as strong character
and personality (Ohmae, 1990). These are compulsory in order not to be left behind
in this very competitive world. The teaching of history may play significant role
especially in shaping the strong character and personality of a nation.

In pedagogical level, we should work out a new alternative in the teaching
method which is expected to contribute to the achievement of the ultimate goal
aforementioned. A future-oriented perspective deserves consideration. What is
meant future-oriented perspective here is that the teaching of history must be put in
a multidimensional perspective: of  time and space.

In the dimension of  time, history teaching must not only discuss the past but
also its relation with the present and its possible implication for the future. In the
dimension of  space, the teaching of  history must not only concentrate on the events
or facts of  one specific region or country separately, but also in relation to those of
other region or country. By so doing, the pupil will evolve analytical, critical and
creative thinking capacity which will enable them to see the world comprehensively.
This way history teaching will be much more fruitful. For the reason, improvement



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and revision in some aspects of the curriculum, textbooks, teaching method, as well
as the teacher need to be attempted.

However, the search for the alternative in the teaching of  historical value has to
meet the following basic conditions:

First, the availability of  historian teacher (teacher and lecturer of  history). Up
to now the teachers of  history have been using conventional method. Their
instructional activities are focused on the transformation of knowledge about
historical events and facts. This practice does not only cause boredom but also bears
trivial value. To reach a maximum result, better teacher preparation is a must.

Second, the development of new curriculum and textbooks. In anticipation of
the globalization era, the current curriculum and textbooks must be revisited and
adjusted. The curriculum and textbooks of  history have so far been based on
conventional outlook of  history. In such a case, history teaching does not have much
to offer to successfully cope with the changes which emerge especially from the
advent of globalization era. The revisited curriculum should of course be the one
which can generate creativity on the part of the pupil.

Third, the devising of  comprehensive teaching method. Under today’s
circumstances the teaching of history requires the use of method which promotes
reasoning and analytical competence over the historical events and facts. With the
competence at hand, pupil will have the ability to view historical events and facts in
relation to the contemporary issues for a better prediction of the future of both his
own nation and of others’.

On the above ground, the improvement of history teaching becomes compelling
and needs integrative effort by the writers, researchers, teachers and curriculum
designers. This is especially true because the stream of social changes is now flowing
very fast. An appropriate endeavor for the right solution must be done. Otherwise,
the “destiny” of  the teaching of  history in this era of  globalization will be miserable.

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