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Historical
Significance
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What is historical significance?
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What is historical significance?
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“Teachers often tell students what is important
instead of asking them to consider what is
significant. The key to understanding significance
is to understand the distinction between teaching
significant history and asking students to make
judgements about the significance.”
– Bradshaw, 2004
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What is historical significance?
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Criteria on Assessing the Historical
Significance of Sources
There are a number of criteria that historians’ use that can be applied to
establish the significance of events. These criteria are interrelated with each
other.
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Criteria on Assessing the Historical Significance
of Sources
Who were/have been affected by the event? Why was it important to them?
Resonance How were people’s lives affected? Do people like to make analogies with it?
It is possible to connect with experiences, beliefs or attitudes across time and place?
Was the event/development important at some stage within the collective memory of a group
Remembered
or groups?
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Criteria on Assessing the Historical Significance
of Sources
Durability For how long have people’s lives been affected? A day, a week, a year, or all their lives?
How many people were affected? Did the event affect many, everyone, or just a few? A whole
Quantity
barrio, a town, a province, a country, or the entire race?
Was the event superficial or deeply affecting? How deeply people’s lives were affected? How
Profundity
ere people’s lives affected?
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Issues on Assesing the Historical
Significance
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