Research On The Theory And Practice Of Historical Sources In Senior High School History Teaching

The importance of applying historical sources in history teaching has been recognized and accepted by more and more educators who teach history in middle school.It is the need for reforming the new course,,the necessity of improving the traditional history teaching as well as the ability of the students ,and the demand of enabling history to play its real role.It also could satisfy the need of the teenagers in psychology and cognition.According to the new course standard and the practice of history teaching in the middle schools in our country,with using some theories of pedagogy and psychology and referring to the history teaching research in Britain,the author of this article makes a deep and complete study of the theory and practice of application of historical sources in history teaching in senior high school.The paper studies three aspects that are classing and collecting historical sources, selecting them, and using them by the ways of qualitative analysis about historical literatures, connection of comparative approach and experimentation approach. It emphasizes to introduce the types of letter, material, and voice and picture historical sources in the part of theory, the resources of historical sources, and the problem of collecting them, and the five principles of practicability, universality. Afterward, it studies how to teach students using historical sources to develop the student's ability, with exactly identifying the fact, evaluating and writing the second-hand material, analyzing the different views, comparing them, strain with empathy, acting the research task, and answering the question on material analysis, and so realizing the advocated core notion in historical sources teaching, which is that the center should not know what happened in the past, but learn how to catch knowledge.