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1. Studying history in
the 21st century
UNDERSTANDING HISTORICAL CONCEPTS

2. Do you get this bored in a history
class?

3. Think of it as an adventure

4. Or : as a process of discovering your
identity
 Who are you?

5. BENEFITS OF STUDYING HISTORY

6. Skills required to understand historical
concepts

7. Historical sources and evidence
 It is important to be able to interpret and explain
historical information from different sources:
 Primary sources
 Secondary sources
 Identify sources that are reliable.
 Create evidence by using sources to answer
questions about the past.

8. Multi-perspectivity
 People perceive events in different ways, including
historians.
 These perspectives may be a result of people’s : age,
social position, gender, beliefs, values and different
ways in which people today see the actions and
behaviours of people of the past.

9. Cause and effect
 Concept used to identify the reasons for events and
their results.
 The consequences of events drive future events and
helps to understand human behaviour.
 Historians use this concept to track series of events in
the short term and long run.
 Can you think of a personal event in your life that led
to other developments?

10. Change and continuity
 Contrasting what has changed and what has remained the same over a
period of time, helps to make sense of the past.

11. Time and chronology
 Placing events in the order in which they happened

12. Exciting Ways of engaging with
historical content
1. Ask relevant questions about every historical event – e.g.
 Why are we studying this?
 How does it relate to me personally?
 How does it relate to the world today?
 What does the event have to do with world history?

13. 2. Use different resources to collect
data

14. 3.THINK HISTORICALLY

15. 4.Pick up lessons from the events

16. FROM THE PAST TO THE PRESENT
 The journey continues…

17. References
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18. Kathleen Taguinod (2013) Making History Come Alive. Available from
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