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This module aims to help students understand the meaning and relevance of history. It defines history as the study of social life in the past, including developments and expectations. History tracks what people felt, wrote, and did regarding social, political, and economic issues. The module also discusses different patterns of history, such as linear, cyclic, spiral, turbulent, and eclectic. Additionally, it addresses why history is important and how studying history can help in various careers. Students engage in activities to discuss their definition of history and how it relates to expert definitions. They also interview older individuals about significant past events.

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RIPH Module 1 Camacho

This module aims to help students understand the meaning and relevance of history. It defines history as the study of social life in the past, including developments and expectations. History tracks what people felt, wrote, and did regarding social, political, and economic issues. The module also discusses different patterns of history, such as linear, cyclic, spiral, turbulent, and eclectic. Additionally, it addresses why history is important and how studying history can help in various careers. Students engage in activities to discuss their definition of history and how it relates to expert definitions. They also interview older individuals about significant past events.

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MODULE 1

UNDERSTANDING HISTORY: Meaning and Relevance of History


Learning Outcomes
At the end of this module, you should be able to:
1. Know the meaning of history.
2. Enumerate pattern of history
3. Relate the relevance of history.
Introduction
History is the study of social life in the past, in all its aspects, of new
developments and future expectations. It's the story of a man in time, an investigation of
the past based on facts. Indeed, the proof is the raw material of teaching and studying
history. It's a survey of what happened in the past, when it happened, and how it
happened. It is an investigation into the inevitable developments in human relations in
the past and how these developments shape, impact, or decide society's ways of life.
History is, or should be, an effort to rethink the past. Collingwood (1945) has a special
interest in this idea of history.
This module will allow you to understand the significance of history. Past usually
falls into five categories: linear: cyclic, spiral, turbulent, eclectic. As also the importance
of history and the study of history.

Lesson 1: UNDERSTANDING HISTORY: Meaning and Relevance of History


HISTORY
History is the history of the past of humanity. History carefully tracks and
describes what people felt, wrote, and did. Past is concerned with social, political, and
economic issues:
(Note: The uploaded PowerPoint presentation about this topic is in the Google
classroom. Make sure to visit the links of the videos and articles.)
Activity: UNDERSTANDING HISTORY: Meaning and Relevance of History
1. Give your definition of HISTORY. Compare your answer to the ideas of the
experts who defined history.
Your Definition Ideas of the Experts in History

Knowing and memorizing facts isn't


History is the investigation of the
enough when it comes to history.
human past as it is portrayed in
Every historian is responsible for
composed reports gave up by people.
eliciting consciousness from the ideas
The past, with the entirety of its
and events that have shaped the lives
muddled decisions and occasions,
of individuals and societies.
members dead and history told, is
the thing that the overall population
sees to be the unchanging bedrock
on which antiquarians and
archeologists stand.

Assessment
Directions: Interview with an older person on what the Philippines was like during
their time. Ask them to share with you the significant activities that have taken place
during that time. Discuss this with a class.

Reflection
1. How does history help in writing an individual's life?
Answer: Composing your set of experiences can likewise furnish you with a
chance to assess your life. It might assist with explaining your course throughout
everyday life. Expounding on your past, regardless of whether it was not ideal,
can help you adapt to emotions and set out a freedom to discover
comprehension and absolution.
2. Why do you study history?
Answer: Contemplating history assists us with comprehension and wrestle with
complex inquiries and difficulties by analyzing how the past has formed (and
keeps on molding) worldwide, public, and neighborhood connections among
social orders and individuals.

3. How does this subject help in your chosen career?


Answer: History assists us with getting change and how the general public we
live in became. The second explanation history is certain as a subject of genuine
examination follows intently on the first. The previous causes the present, thus
what's to come. Most understudies who study history, select a center, regardless
of whether that be craftsmanship history, antiquated history, instruction history,
military history, or dependent on a locale, similar to European history.

Assignment
1. What are the sources of history?
Answer: Historical source (also known as historical material or historical data) is
original source that contain important historical information. These sources are
something that inform us about history at the most basic level, and these sources
used as clues in order to study history.
Historical sources include documents, artifacts, archaeological sites, features.
oral transmissions, stone inscriptions, paintings, recorded sounds, images
(photographs, motion picture), and oral history. Even ancient relics and ruins,
broadly speaking, are historical sources

2. How do they help in writing history?


Answer: History was written to serve as a lesson to new generations. It helps
them know what should they avoid to not repeat what happened in the history.
And it also gives them knowledge on what action should be made if history
repeat itself in the present situations.
3. Give different kinds of primary and secondary sources.
Answer: = Primary sources provide raw information and first-hand evidence.
Examples include interview transcripts, statistical data, and works of art. A
primary source gives you direct access to the subject of your research.
= Secondary sources provide second-hand information and
commentary from other researchers. Examples include journal articles, reviews,
and academic books. A secondary source describes, interprets, or synthesizes
primary sources.

References

(n.d.). Retrieved from "https://www.slideshare.net/PennVillanueva/introduction-to-


history-definitionissuessources-and-methodology
Agoncillo, T. (n.d.). In History of the Filpino People (pp. 184-187).
Ma. Christina Halili, M. P. (n.d.). Philippine History.
The Importance of Cultural Heritage. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.cultivatingculture.com/2013/04/05/the-importance-of-cultural-
Villena, A. (n.d.). Module in History 1.

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