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Identification of The Historical Importance of The Text

This document discusses criteria for assessing the historical significance of sources. It provides guidelines for determining if a source is relevant, had resonance, was remarkable or remembered, is revealing, resulted in change, and other factors. It notes that our views of significance are shaped by current contexts and values, and that significance can vary depending on location, generation, or political views of the evaluator. The document aims to help students analyze primary sources and understand Philippine history by learning to make judgments about what was truly significant in the past.

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Identification of The Historical Importance of The Text

This document discusses criteria for assessing the historical significance of sources. It provides guidelines for determining if a source is relevant, had resonance, was remarkable or remembered, is revealing, resulted in change, and other factors. It notes that our views of significance are shaped by current contexts and values, and that significance can vary depending on location, generation, or political views of the evaluator. The document aims to help students analyze primary sources and understand Philippine history by learning to make judgments about what was truly significant in the past.

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LESSON

(IDENTIFICATION OF THE HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE OF THE TEXT)

Lesson Objectives:
 Analyze the context, content, and perspective of different kinds of primary sources.
 Determine the contribution of different kinds of primary sources in understanding
Philippine History.
 Develop critical and analytical skills with exposure to primary sources.

Content

Historical significance is the process used to evaluate what was significant about selected
events, people, and developments in the past.

“Teachers often tell students what is important instead of asking them to consider what is
significant. The key to understanding significance is to understand the distinction between
teaching significant history and asking students to make judgements about significance.”
----Bradshaw, 2004---

Criteria on Assessing the Historical Significance of Sources


Relevance Is it important/relevant to people living at
the time?

Is something still relevant to our present


lives even if it had only a passing
importance?
Resonance Who were/have been affected by the event?
Why was it important to them?

How were people’s lives affected? Do


people like to make analogies with it?

It is possible to connect with experiences,


beliefs or attitudes across time and place?
Remarkable Was that event remarked on by people at the
time or since?
Remembered Was that event/development important at
some stage within the collective memory of
a group or groups?
Revealing Does it reveal some other aspects of the
past?
Resulting in Change Does it have consequences for the future?
Durability For how long have people’s lives been
affected? A day, a week, a year, or all their
lives?
Quantity How many people were affected? Did the
event affect many, everyone, or just a few?
A whole barrio, a town, a province, a
country, or the entire race?
Profundity Was the event superficial or deeply
affecting? How deeply people’s lives were
affected? How were people’s lives affected?

Issues on Assessing the Historical Significance


1. Our views about historical significance are often shaped by contemporary contexts and
can be dependent upon our own values, interests and knowledge.
2. History is written by the victor. Historical significance is how we define past events that
the current writer of history deems important/relevant.
3. Historical significance is relative and varies from location to location, generation to
generation or sometimes to ideological orientation or political affiliation of the one
doing the evaluation or assessment.

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