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Voice of Wisdom
EngagingStudentsinLearningthan
JustStudyingHistory
HUFSAffiliatedProfessor,
DepartmentofHistory
ByHridayNarayan
T
ome,teachinghistoryisnotjustateachingbutitisstimulatingbecauseitallowsmetocontinueparticipatingin
thelearningprocess.Interactingwiththestudentsandoftengetchallengedbytheirqueriesisatwowayprocess
to learn and teach. This approach makes me feel that teaching is integral to my personal and professional
development.Ibelievethatwearealllifelonglearnersandassuch,Iseektodevelopmyteachingskillsthroughoutmy
career.
Studyinghistoryprovidesstudentswithachancetothinkabouttheworldaroundthem,tosubstitutecriticalthinking
for acceptance of ‘natural’ social relationships, and to appreciate how diverse the human experience has been.
Understandinghowhistory‘works’isanimportantstepinunderstandingtheworldweliveinandtheconsequencesof
thedecisionsweasasocietymake.
It is easier to comment on how not to teach history than it is on how to teach it. I only have to recall the hundreds
of negative reactions from adults when I told them I am a history teacher. “Oh! That was my worst subject,” “I hated
history,”“Historywasboring,”“Namesanddates,that’sallitwas”and“Ican’trememberanyofit,”andsoon.
Ithinkthatthefirstpriorityinhowtoteachhistoryeffectivelyistodeveloplearningstrategiesthatarouseandengage
the historical imaginations of our students. How we do that is by providing them with opportunities to do and to talk
abouthistory.Weneedtoencouragestudentstotakeontheroleofthehistorianinacreativeandcriticalway.Itisnot
by filling them with a narrative of names and dates for recall and test purposes but to learn it through involvement. I
couldnotagreemorewiththeresultsofamemorystudyconductedbyDanielleLappoftheUniversityofTexas,which
revealed,“werememberonly10%0fwhatweread,20%ofwhatwehear,30%ofwhatwesee,50%ofwhatweseeand
hear,and90percentofwhatwedoandsay.”
I am a huge supporter of using debates and discussion methods to make the students to feel the live history in the
classroomandatthesametime,ithelpstostartarealinteractionwithinthestudentsandbetweenstudentsandteacher.
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