Kamalaysayan Week-1
Reference: Kamalaysayan: Sense-of-History Imperative for Filipinos,
Questions: (to be answered before and after reading the Input Articles)
Does” sense of history” mean that one knows a lot of facts? Explain*.
Why do many students dislike the study of history? Are you one of them?
Is the need for sense of history among our people an urgent one? Why?
Why would our collective ignorance about our own history be unfair to us?Why do people think of a book when History is mentioned? Is it wrong?
Don’t you sometimes thank or blame your parents or grandparents for your
kind of life currently affordable now?
What are the consistent practices that constitute the Sense of History habit?
Input articles:
Chapter 1 (early part, click here)
Parts to read:
Sense of History Defined
Why It Is an Urgency
Towards Defining History
Leaders’ and Visionaries’ Dreams
HISTORY IS LIFE, your life, our lives!
1. Remembering From Understanding, Not From Memorizing
2. The ‘Kamalaysayan Habit’