MODULE 1: Learning Local History
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Learning Objectives: At the end of the topic the learner will be able to:
know the importance of learning and knowing
you local history
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LOCAL HISTORY
What is Local History?
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LOCAL HISTORY
• the study of history in a
geographically local context and it
often concentrates on the local
community.
• It incorporates cultural
and social aspects of history.
• attempts to reconstruct the history
of a place to understand how the
way people lived connects to the
community’s present and future.
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LOCAL HISTORY
• the study of the everyday struggles and triumphs of ordinary
people.
• reflects the reality that our lives are shaped by particular places
and that our physical place in the world is a major determinant
to how our lives are live
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LOCAL HISTORY
Why do we study Local History ?
Why is it important?
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LOCAL HISTORY
• allows for in-depth research to connect
the past with the present, which is done
more simply and with more meaning than
studying the national, faceless masses.
• It allows for greater depth in studying the
history of our communities and the
relations to the people within them.
• Involving students in local history helps
them to learn to analyze their place in
larger events.
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LOCAL HISTORY
• students will learn to question history as
it has been taught and history as it is
being made around them.
• By understanding their part in history,
people become directly involved in their
studies of the past.
• a useful vehicle for building partnerships
with the local community in which the
school resides and it can help to break
down the barriers between school and
the world outside.
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LOCAL HISTORY
DOCUMENTING LOCAL HISTORY
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DOCUMENTING LOCAL HISTORY
Local history is often documented by
local historical societies or groups that
form to preserve a local historic building
or other historic site. Many works of local
history are compiled by amateur
historians working independently or
archivists employed by various
organizations.
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DOCUMENTING LOCAL HISTORY
An important aspect of local history
is the publication and cataloguing of
documents preserved in local or
national records which relate to
particular areas.
Many local histories are recorded as
oral tales or stories and so are more
vulnerable than more well-known
issues.
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DOCUMENTING LOCAL HISTORY
Local history tends to be less documented than
other types, with fewer books and artifacts
than that of a country or continent.
Artifacts of local history are often collected in
local history museums, which may be housed
in a historic house or other building. Individual
historic sites are inherently local, although
they may have national or world history
importance as well. Many however have little
overall historical impact but add depth to the
local area.
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DOCUMENTING LOCAL HISTORY
During field visits and project work in local history, pupils will need to get in touch
with experts such as museum curators, archivists, archaeologists, members of local
historical societies and the like.
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This emphasizes the fact that history has a
wider significance outside the classroom: it
is an on-going business in which real
people, professionals, earn a living and the
learning process extends beyond the realms
of history textbooks. Visits are a wonderful
way of letting pupils know that learning can
be fun’ and it is ‘not a process that just
takes place within the four walls of the
classroom. It encourages them to make
their own links with the outside world and
to take control of their own learning.
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