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BELO, JEFFERSON P.

BSEE-4B

Guide Questions for Better Understanding

1. What is the fundamental task of a historian to his country and his people?
- Historians play an important role in synthesizing and recording the events of the past.
Their efforts make it possible for individuals and societies to learn from history in order
to chart a better course for the future.

2. As an academic discipline, how does a historian make a truthful historical account of the past?
How does this relate with the scientific method used in natural sciences?
- Studying history provides us with knowledge of the past. It also gives us understanding
of how our own and other peoples societies have been created. What happened in the
past has an influence on what happens today and the past has an influence on the
future.

3. Do you believe that history is never truly objective? Does this hold true to News making?
- Yes. According to the question, writing history is a subjective matter as it is involving
good character creation, bad character creation, event studying, relating event ,
searching incomplete events.

4. What brought the emergence of nationalist history in the Philippines? Is nationalist History an
to colonial-based historiography?
- The written record of the Philippine Islands starts with the coming of the Spaniards. Not
that the country had not had a history and a culture and a literature before! But the
Spaniards, in their religious zeal, destroyed the earlier records as completely as possible.

5. What types of “nationalist history” obstructed the national cause ie, developing national
identity and national consciousness?
- Filipino nationalism refers to the establishment and support of a political identity
associated with the modern nation-state of the Philippines, leading to a wide-ranging
campaign for political, social, and economic freedom in the Philippines.

6. Explain why the writings of Pedro Paterno, Jose Marco. Diego Lope Povedano and Jose Maria
Pavon were considered pseudohistory or products of creative imagination”
- It attempts to distort or misrepresent the historical record, often by employing methods
resembling those used in scholarly historical research.
7. What is the difference in emphasis between the colonialist and elitist approaches in
historiography? What factor’s influence this emphasis?
- The nationalist history of the 1970s rejects the colonialist and elitist approaches—
writingnational history. It rather takes a stand on writing people history or history from
the point of view of the masses.

8. What are the characteristics of a true “people’s history?


- The ability to consistently support, evaluate and challenge their own and others’ views
using detailed, appropriate and accurate historical evidence derived from a range of
sources. The ability to think, reflect, debate, discuss and evaluate the past, formulating
and refining questions and lines of enquiry.

9. Is “people’s history” a liberating history? How could “people’s history” totally free the
Filipinos from their colonial mentality?
- People History gives the foundation of knowing occurrences that happened in the past
and helps in dealing with same occurrences if they happen in future.

10. What are the challenges of Filipino historians in writing Philippine history? How could they
address these challenges?
- Filipino historians are called and challenged to present the Filipino past in an its variety,
all of the past provide inspiration for a better and more Just society. But by depicting the
whole of reality. History ‘Will make it possible to reform and reshape every society
toward a better future.

Issues for Discourse.

1. As a student of history, what lesson does the following statement give you? “History is not
what happened in the past, rather, it is the act of selecting, analyzing and writing about the
past. It is something that is done, that is constructed, rather than an inert body of data that
lies scattered through the archives.” James Davidson and Mark Lytle
- Historiographical paper is an analysis of the interpretations of a specific topic written by
past historians. Specifically, a historiography identifies influential thinkers and reveals
the shape of the scholarly debate on a particular subject.

2. “The victors write the history.” How would you reconcile this statement with the Dominance
as well as the biases and prejudices of historical narratives made by the Spanish chroniclers
who wrote about the history of the Filipino people?
- The quote gets attributed to Winston Churchill, but its origins are unknown. It implies
that history is not grounded in facts, rather it's the winners' interpretation of them that
prevails. The victors can force their narrative down on the people.
3. Do you think it is right to use nationalist perspective in the writing of Philippine history? Why?
How can a nationalist perspective build a sense of national identity and offer guidance for the
present and for the future?
- Nationalist historiography is one of the schools of historiography which includes all
those historical writings which are related to India’s war of independence, and the
related events.

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