Understanding Of Local History Research Articles

Mapping Histories: An Environmental Perspective for Writing Local History in Pakistan

Local history in Pakistan has a complex relationship with national historical narratives that are derived from ideological debates on Muslim nationhood in South Asia. This article discusses how ‘local’ is understood in Pakistan’s historiography and puts forth an argument for the adoption of an environmental framework to enhance our understanding of local history. Mapping methodology used for a project on the Rachna Doab is discussed in order to demonstrate how local environmental history can give new insights into history by eschewing preconceived frames of reference and using a different concept of space and time defined by environmental change.

Kebutuhan E-LKPD Sejarah Lokal Kota Padang Periode Revolusi Fisik untuk Siswa di SMA

This study is part of a phase of development studies using the ADDIE model. This article describes the needs analysis phase of a development study being conducted. The purpose of this study was to identify the needs of the Student Worksheet (LKPD) as a learning resource in SMAN 7 Padang based on the stages of needs analysis conducted. The data collection method used in this study was by observation and interview. The obtained data were analyzed in four steps: 1) data analysis, 2) data reduction, 3) data display, and 4) data validation. The discussion and results of this study, on the premise that there is a problem with the history teaching and learning process, proceed as follows. 1) Student Analysis: Students need learning resources that can enhance their understanding of local history. 2) Teacher Analysis, A teacher needs learning resource in her E-Student Worksheets (LKPD) that focuses on local history. 3) Curriculum analysis of learning outcomes and history learning Indicators based on the E-Student Worksheets (LKPD) developed as high school history learning resources.

Keterampilan Menulis Dan Bercerita Untuk Membangkitkan Kecintaan Sejarah Bagi Generasi Muda

This research aimed to develop a Community Service Program that focuses on improving the reading and writing skills of elementary and junior high school youth regarding local history in the East Bandung area. The program addressed issues such as the need for more understanding of local history, low interest in historical topics, and limited writing and storytelling skills among adolescents in the area. The program began with delivering material on writing and storytelling skills and local historical concepts to the participants. Although initially hesitant and embarrassed, the participants gradually became enthusiastic about sharing their stories. The program then continued with the practice of historical storytelling through objects in East Bandung, starting with the Bandros bus tour. The young educators within Bandros supported the program by hosting visits to Teras Sunda and Tugu Perjuangan. The program laid the foundation for habitual action to write and tell stories about local history among teenagers. The participants demonstrated their ability to tell stories with simple narrative formulations, such as what, where, when, who, why, and how. However, the program faced challenges in terms of timeliness, and the young participants were still hesitant to write down ideas related to historical places in their surroundings. Overall, the Community Service Program can potentially improve historical awareness and writing skills among the millennial generation in the East Bandung area.Keywords: Historical awareness, writing skills, millennial generation.

Keep Rural Schools Open: Position and Policy

Rural schools are a central pillar in the communities in which they belong. They offer not only education for the community’s youth, but serve as a community space, educational location for all community members, and enhance new generations’ understanding of local history and current events. The schools ensure that education is accessible to everyone in the community by avoiding long commutes, employing numerous locals, and having smaller class sizes to better cater to individual student needs. While there are benefits to closing schools, often ones of financial nature, the loss of these schools is felt deeply within rural communities. There are options to pursue and consider prior to taking the drastic action of closing a school, including seeking additional state funds, incorporating place-based educational approaches, and working to cooperatively provide extracurricular opportunities between local rural schools.

Development of Historical Learning Media Based on Documentary Film to Strengthen Student’s Understanding of Local History

One of the goals of learning history is in addition to fostering historical awareness, it also introduces the concept of collective identity in students. Awareness of identity is very important for the life of the nation and state amidst the strengthening of globalization. Strengthening awareness of collective identity through historical education can use a local historical approach that contains local identities. Local history has a more contextual position from the student's point of view because it is closer to and around students. So that strengthening the understanding of local history is the initial stage that must be taken. Therefore, the use of historical learning media that utilizes local history material in schools is important. This study uses the first level Research and Development method, with a focus on designing learning product designs. The results showed that the design of learning media for historical documentary films with the material of the Implementation of Ethical Policies through Colonization Policies in Metro Lampung was by the core competencies and basic competencies in the 2013 Curriculum. The results of validation by stage 1 material experts were 59.3% with the criteria "Eligible", the second stage material expert was 93.3% with the criteria "Very Appropriate", while the results of the validation of the 1st stage design expert were 76.6% with the "Proper" criteria, the 2nd stage design expert was 88.6% with the criteria "Very Feasible". The results of the responses of students to the design of learning media were 88.4% (Very Feasible). It was concluded that the learning media in the form of a historical documentary film with the material of Ethical Policy Implementation through Colonization Policy in Metro Lampung deserves to be tested as a historical learning medium to strengthen students' understanding of local history in high schools. Keywords: Instructional Media, Documentary Films, Historical Understanding, Local History.

Libraries at the Crossroads of the Digital Content Divide: Pathways for Information Continuity in a Youth-Led Geospatial Technology Program

This article reviews the implementation and outcomes of a social action research, university-community partnership titled Building Information Technology Skills (BITS). BITS trains high school–age youth in geographic field methods to gather and analyze geospatial information as a means of fostering their civic engagement and motivation to persist in the study of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) disciplines. The program was designed from its inception to be culturally, historically, and geographically relevant. In order to accomplish this, the authors leveraged access to and use of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection as a beginning point for the youth in the program to consider and focus on the relationships between place, history, and digital geospatial technologies. This was achieved by introducing the youth involved in the program to geographic information through an inventory of historic markers depicting African American sites of interest in Philadelphia. The primary aim of the social action methods employed was to simultaneously increase the interest, engagement and geographic skills among the youth participants and to create a digital archive related to the historic markers that could in and of itself become a resource for the education of youth and community members in Philadelphia. Use of the Blockson Collection anchored the program's goals of a) advancing digital inclusion and digital content creation among relatively under-represented communities and b) promoting youth empowerment by fostering the development of STEM skills and engagement within a university setting. In grounding the acquisition of field methods and geospatial information technology skills in an understanding of local history and culture, the BITS program mutually reinforces the dual-objective of advancing STEM engagement and creating a more-empowering geography for students to learn from.

Turning Privies into Class Projects

AbstractJefferson Patterson Park and Museum worked with a local high school class to conduct an analysis of artifacts from a nineteenth-century privy excavated more than 30 years ago. The project filled a specific request from the school system, which asked for help in creating an in-depth endeavor that would allow the students to develop new skills and expand their understanding of local history. For the Museum, it completed one small piece of a decades-old project and allowed us to live out our mission in a compelling way. Students and staff produced a community exhibit, posters, and the final research report on this feature. This paper explores the dynamic that empowers the co-creative process to construct not only a good end product but also demonstrable gains for those involved. It establishes that the strength of the co-creative process lies in the purposeful sharing of power and authority for the betterment of our community members.

Public Collaboration in Transportation

Rapid population growth, traffic congestion and air pollution from automobiles have made Environmental Protection Agency to designate Denton County as part of the Dallas - Fort Worth 8-hour non-attainment area. In 2001, county residents and elected officials petitioned the Texas Legislature to create the Denton County Transportation Authority (DCTA). In 2002, DCTA was created through a countywide election to provide environment friendly public transportation services. Soon DCTA embarked on a plan for collaboration with the public and various stakeholders. In this case study, efforts have been made to understand the reasons behind DCTA's plan for collaboration, the initiatives it undertook and the public's perception of such collaborative efforts. Based on evidences, it has been concluded that even a well designed plan of interaction can have structural flaws. Such flaws coupled with lack of understanding of local history can impede the establishment of a meaningful partnership with the local community.

Institutional Legitimacy and Co-Management of a Marine Protected Area: Implementation Lessons from the Case of Xcalak Reefs National Park, Mexico

This paper is an exploration of the relationship between a conservation intervention and the quest for local institutional legitimacy and conservation success through co-management. More precisely, this paper will employ the case of Xcalak Reefs National Park (PNAX) to illuminate the interaction between contextual and procedural elements of co-management implementation, how these variables affect the production of legitimacy in the minds of local resource users, and how resultant attitudes can subvert both management devolution and resource conservation. The failure to produce co-management will be related to the mismatch inherent in attempts to map co-management onto a histories and institutions that do not align with the morality and practicalities necessary for its implementation. The case reiterates the necessity for conservation managers and practitioners to have an understanding of local history and context. Lastly, Xcalak demonstrates the dangers for the success of conservation and development prog...