This study begins as a lack of awareness of diversity, newness, and a sense of realism in history education of elementary school. Among possibilities which is securable it effectively, one is judged as a local history. Therefore, the purpose of the st...
This study begins as a lack of awareness of diversity, newness, and a sense of realism in history education of elementary school. Among possibilities which is securable it effectively, one is judged as a local history. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to produce a doing history-program for elementary student by utilizing a local history as materials, exploring a method of history education which can be used effectively materials of a local history in elementary schools.
There are three practice progress of the study. First, the study carried out to research logically on a method of a history education by using a local history and materials of a local history. Through this, the study found a necessity and usefulness of history education to utilize materials of a local history. Through this, the study found a necessity and usefulness of history education to utilize materials of a local history. Through this, the study abstracted elements required for the program which made by using a local history. Third, the type of doing history using materials of a local history is classified into three sections, considering the relationship between a history text book for fifth grade class and the national history. Each category consists of two themes respectively. Each theme is composed of educational programs for doing history project by using materials of a local history.
As the result of the study, the program for doing history, which is available materials of a local history effectively in elementary schools, could be produced. History starts from ‘now’ in time and at ‘here’ in space. Teachers should let their students know the facts that history is to start at the present, to understand the past, and to create a better future, as well as to start from their regions, and then understand their countries and the world eventually. In this context, a history education by applying a local history will be able to propose a crucial implication for students’ awareness about history, as well as teacher’s methods of history education. If various advantages of materials of a local history proved by this study are utilized, students will be able to realize history as not only the starting point of understanding themselves, but also the window to understand the world. Furthermore, they will rewrite newly a local history, as well as their own history through understanding the world.