This paper aims to study how the interests and recognition of history learning have changed since the application of PBL and propose a direction(way) to improve history teaching and learning method. To do this, I designed high school history class by ...
This paper aims to study how the interests and recognition of history learning have changed since the application of PBL and propose a direction(way) to improve history teaching and learning method. To do this, I designed high school history class by using PBL. PBL is an embodied teaching and learning model of constructivism that is new learning theory and education paradigm. And I apply the design in the actual teaching and learning and evaluate it.
I have introduced PBL as history teaching and learning model. That is why it encourages students who live in an era of information and diversity to lead problem-solving related to history existing in the real world and cooperate with others to cope with the problems. For this, this paper develops PBL problems of history targeting the 1st high school students and designs the teaching and learning lesson plan and then apply them to 81 students from 2008 to 2010. In order to identify the change after the application of PBL, I studied the result of evaluation qualitatively. To get the result, a teacher and students played the leading role in observing the teacher and evaluating reports by individual and group, presentations, reflective journal etc in multi-faced method.
As a result, the interests in learning was extended to the interests in the history curriculum and history, leading to the change of students' recognition about the history curriculum in positive way. In addition, students recognized the nature of history itself and their own historical prejudices and put the hypothesis to solve the problem. They searched and collected the historical data by the hypothesis and evaluated the importance, came to think historically. In short, it appeared that the application of PBL to history class has contributed to the development of historical thinking skills.
I expect to apply the PBL model and develop the PBL problem situation to enhance historical thinking in the history class. Also I wish a study on which historical thinking components is enhanced when PBL is applied to history class, and also a study on the better way to enhance historical thinking ability is done in depth.