The problem of whether the historical knowledge is useful or not in groping for individual life, or life is very important problem for researchers who work directly in the study of history and people who will work in the field of education of history ...
The problem of whether the historical knowledge is useful or not in groping for individual life, or life is very important problem for researchers who work directly in the study of history and people who will work in the field of education of history in the future.
Nowadays, we are concerned about usage of history. Of cause, It is not only for the minority, or even concerning this problem because of profit of sovereigns. This era where we are living in has already been diversified and modernized rapidly. So, should we have to agree with the idea that history and historians should be changed to form toward the public who are living in present-day?
The writter believes that historians are responsible for the debate. Because, present historical researchers can not avoid the criticism on that they have paid no attention to historical knowledge and popularization instead, they only put stress on professionality and scientism. In modern society, as a result, consumer of historical knowledge, that is, the ordinary public's interest about history is only expressed through the mass media. However, fundamental historical knowledge and its judgmental ability have being regressed than promoted. The situation has arisen since 1990's in Republic of Korea.
At now, historian and historic researcher have developed different the meaning in that's concept. Which form of history are requested to historic researcher who live in this age, and which attitude should be maintained by present-day's historical researcher? Under this critical mind, the writter wanted to analyze the causes of history and popularization of history through this thesis, and wanted to bring up the basis of the further debate toward that.