Understanding History

In the report "Understanding History", researchers investigated on the enormous discrepancy between "school history" as represented in textbooks and "_______________" as represented in the work of historians.

• secondary history

• college history

• academic history

• philosophical history

The first major goal of the project is to formulate a model of historical understanding that can be used ______________________________________.

• to prove that history is not a dead subject

• to address the hypothesized gap between school history and academic history

• to guide efforts to improve students' understanding of and interest in history

In the report, two key features that distinguish academic history from school history have been discussed: _____________ and _______________.

• inquiry and investigation

• inquiry and interpretation

• inquiry and internalization

• inquiry and invigoration

________________ was about asking questions rather than merely repeating legends.

• Philippine history

• Sociology

• History

• Philosophy

History is not the work of memory, but of ________________, _______________, and _________________.

• inference, interpretation, imagination

• inference, interpretation, rationalization

• inference, interpretation, solution

• inference, interpretation, motivation

The historian is always interpreting the record, and in those cases where it is incomplete he must _______________ what happened.

• reason

• decipher

• infer

• investigate

The formulation of a model of historical understanding requires an understanding of the __________________ and ____________________ in history.

• nature and role of investigation

• nature and role of interpretation

• interpretation and role of investigation

• investigation and role of interpretation

It means an understanding of, or perspective on, present problems that is illuminated by a knowledge of the past.

• historical investigation

• historical wisdom

• historical knowledge

• historical mindedness

The historian is always struggling with the "_________________" of his sources.

• relevance

• meaning

• knowledge

• understanding

One of the problems that had been presented in the reading is that students have no sense of what it means __________________________________________.

• to speak critically of our social issues

• to think critically of our social issues

• to speak historically

• to think historically