The Strengthening of Students' Empathy through Living History

DOI

10.2991/ictte-17.2017.43How to use a DOI?

Keywords

History Learning, Empathy History, Living History

Abstract

History education in the curriculum of 2013 has a dominant role to shape the character of the nation. One of the roles of learning history is to awaken and maintain the spirit of nationalism that can be achieved by understanding the past in the context of the present. Therefore, it takes a model of historical learning that can be used as the facility of students to actively participate in understanding past events in order to shape the history of students in the past. Living History is a concept of learning that present a lively atmosphere in class by presenting the reactor of the past. Living history model is one of the learning ways which is the implementation of the research steps history. Living History can also be used to analyze historical events that occur around the environment where learners live and also used in an effort to perform the deconstruction of local values ​​that developed in society. Through the use of living history students can be guided to build the mind constructs and perceptions of past figures in historical events. The main purpose of these activities is as an effort to improve students' historical empathy through observation activities and deconstruction of living values ​​that flourish in the community. This study used a qualitative approach with data collection methods using literature study by collecting relevant sources in the form of books and research journals, then to see the problems and needs of students was done with observation and interviews to several schools in Tabalong Regency. The application of living history to strengthen historical empathy is an innovation in historical learning based on needs analysis and problems that occurred in Tabalong, South Kalimantan.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Dewicca Nadilla
AU  - Prof Sariyatun
AU  - Mr Sunardi
PY  - 2017/10
DA  - 2017/10
TI  - The Strengthening of Students' Empathy through Living History
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Teacher Training and Education 2017 (ICTTE 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 381
EP  - 392
SN  - 2352-5398
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