METHODOLOGY OF TEACHING HISTORY AS A SCIENCE AND AN ACADEMIC SUBJECT

Abstract

Many people think they know what history. They might then assume that they know what historical knowledge. History, they might say is about people in the past. Historical knowledge is simply knowing about people in the past. But it is not that easy. Some of the levels of historical knowledge include: what actually happened in the past; what historians claim they know about the past (or the five Ws - who did what, where, when and why?); what teachers of history know about the past; what students know about the past (gained both outside and inside the classroom).