Distance Between History Teaching and Discipline of History

Abstract

History teaching is done on the basis of historical study. Discipline of history communicates with the world in the history textbooks. Discipline of history and history teaching communicate through history textbooks. We teach historical narrative and historical discourse in history teaching.BR Historical narrative is realized in a synthesis of fruits of historian’s study. Historical discourse is made up by abstract historical narratives. There is a distance between historians and history teachers, and a gap between history teaching and discipline of history. There is a difference in the aims of writing history textbooks and historical texts. Historians make efforts to find historical truth, but teachers invent historical narrative.BR The synthesis of these historical narratives is a meta-narrative of history. Ultimate aim of historical study that historians do is to make a communication with the world. The way of communication is a meta-narrative. To teach completed meta-narrative sophisticated in his life is to carry out hitorian’s task. History teaching is developed in help of the sophisticated meta-narrative. Discipline of history and history teaching are put on the win-win situation in a pursuit of meta-narrative of history.