10 Reasons for studying History
- History opens the way to jobs for history students and graduates
- History is vital for helping you to understand the world we live in
- History encourages qualities for good citizenship
- History provides many leisure interests
- History is a crucial part of our national heritage
- History helps explain how your locality changed and developed
- History helps to develop an understanding of the attitudes and actions of people in other times and places
- History develops important educational skill:
comprehension of information; the ability to analyse situations and to present clear, logical findings orally and in writing
- History in concerned with fundamental ideas, change, cause and effect which have wide application in all aspects of life
- History is concerned with the interpretation of events and actions which contributes to the development of a balanced view of world politics
The Department Role
Rationale:
We study History at Horndean as part of the National Curriculum. Our aim is to help students develop an understanding of the past. We do this because the past influenced the customs and beliefs of the communities to which we belong. Studying History can help students make sense of the world and is intrinsically interesting. Through this, wider intellectual and social education can take place.
Aims:
- To arouse interest in the past
- To contribute to students' knowledge and understanding of the cultures of their own and other countries
- help students begin to understand the present in the light of the past
- To train the mind, through the development of historical skills and concepts
- To enrich other areas of the curriculum
- To prepare students for adult life
- To encourage critical thinking
Objectives:
- To study history through a series of concepts, causes and consequences, change and continuity, similarity and difference, attitudes in the past
- To develop the skills of history, particularly analysis and evaluation of evidence, comparisons of interpretations of the past, creating syntheses
- To study history through a range of content matter, given coherence through local, national, European and non-European aspects
- To study political, social, economic and religious aspects of history
- To develop skills of enquiry and communication as a methods of studying the past
- To develop students ability to communicate and enquire through a range of media
Aims of the History Department
- The History Department is housed in D block and is staffed by three full time members of staff. Accommodation consists of four classrooms. The department also has its own individual office. The resources for KS3 are housed in D10.
- We study History at Horndean Technology College part of the National Curriculum. Our aim is to help students develop an understanding of the past. We do this because the past influences the customs and beliefs of the communities to which we belong. Studying history can help students make sense of the world and is intrinsically interesting.
We aim:
- To stimulate knowledge and understanding of human activity in the past.
- To provide, in terms of context, a balance of local, national and world history
- To develop a clear understanding of key historical concepts such as cause and consequence, continuity and change, similarities and differences
- To develop the ability to look at events and issues from the perspective of people in the past
- To develop skills in the use of historical evidence in particular comprehension, detection of bias, synthesis.
- To develop essential study skills, e.g. the location and extraction of information and evidence from different sources and analysis.
- To develop communication skills and, at an appropriate stage, the ability to write clear concise, logical and relevant argument based on evidence.
- To develop speaking and listening skills - to contribute to the development if leisure interest
- To develop in students a process of question raising and problem solving.
- To encourage students in research
- To develop students abilities to work in groups
- To present work appropriately and in a variety of ways
- To enhance their understanding and use of I. T.
- To encourage classroom discussion, allowing students to express and listen to views and opinions of others
- To encourage students to reflect on their own experiences
- To help students to understand their cultural roots and shared inheritances, and life in a multi-cultural society
- To use a variety of teaching methods appropriate to the task and learning ability, that will help develop successful working relationships with other students
- To develop an understanding of the value of:
- Themselves as individuals, their own personal qualities and potential
Other people and their relationship between them
- To help students to begin to understand the present in the light of the past