{"id":4415,"date":"2023-03-06T02:01:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T02:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsseonline.nie.edu.sg\/?p=4415"},"modified":"2023-03-26T05:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T05:22:24","slug":"developing-historical-habits-of-mind-through-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hsseonline.nie.edu.sg\/developing-historical-habits-of-mind-through-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing Historical Habits of Mind through Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/author\/suhaimi-afandi\">Suhaimi Afandi\u00a0<\/a><span class=\"content clearfix author-affiliations\">(National Institute of Education, Singapore)<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/author\/eulalia-han\">Eulalia Han<\/a>\u00a0<span class=\"content clearfix author-affiliations\">(CHIJ Secondary School (Toa Payoh))<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/category\/subjects\/history\">History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/category\/levels\/junior-college\">Junior College<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/category\/levels\/secondary-school\">Secondary School<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/category\/topics\/inquiry-teaching\">Inquiry Teaching<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/category\/topics\/historical-thinking\">Historical thinking<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction<\/strong><br \/>\nTeaching history is not simply about getting students to learn \u201cthe right stories\u201d or getting them to absorb transmitted knowledge about the past; it requires teachers to find means to develop students\u2019 historical understanding and to help these students make sense of the knowledge imparted through daily classroom instruction. As many of us already recognize, the knowledge we have about the past is never \u201cgiven\u201d or \u201cjust there\u201d for the taking; the manner in which we come to know what we know about the past requires questioning, imagining, contextualising and (re-)constructing. History education researchers across many national contexts would agree that students need to be taught to understand the nature of historical knowledge \u2013 how such knowledge is constructed, how evidence is used to develop interpretations or support claims, how evidence\/interpretation is adjudged as valid or credible, etc. \u2013 if they are to develop proper understandings about history. Acquiring proficiency in some of these processes calls for a mode of thinking (and an instructional approach) that can enable students to become confident and critical thinkers when studying history. This would involve cultivating certain historical habits of mind that work to develop students\u2019 disciplinary ideas\/understandings and help them become more adept at historical analysis. An instructional approach that uses historical inquiry as a pedagogical framework is more likely to provide opportunities for students to develop disciplinary ideas, and offers teachers with potential strategies and scaffolds to help deepen students\u2019 understandings in more exciting ways. This article explores some ways teachers can make \u201cthe complex past\u201d more accessible to students by helping them manage historical problems in the classroom while engaging them in disciplined inquiry about the past. It focuses on the use of inquiry as a means to develop good historical habits of mind, and demonstrates this idea by considering the ways students\u2019 ideas (about\u00a0<em>significance<\/em>,\u00a0<em>diversity<\/em>,\u00a0<em>causation<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>accounts<\/em>) can be developed through historical inquiry.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"elementor-button-link elementor-button elementor-size-sm downloadbtn\" role=\"button\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/1-suhaimi.pdf\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\"><span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Download Full Article<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suhaimi Afandi\u00a0(National Institute of Education, Singapore) Eulalia Han\u00a0(CHIJ Secondary School (Toa Payoh)) Keywords History Junior College Secondary School Inquiry Teaching Historical thinking Introduction Teaching history is not simply about getting students to learn \u201cthe right stories\u201d or getting them to absorb transmitted knowledge about the past; 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