Historical Research Skills Development in Light of a Training Program for Secondary Stage History Teachers

Abstract

The study aimed to design a training program to develop the historical research skills after defining the nature of the historical research skills that the history teachers are required to master, especially the secondary stage teachers, in addition to defining the opinions of the educational supervisors on the extent to which the secondary schools teachers should obtain this skill. The study applied the descriptive analytical approach through a questionnaire that was distributed on the study sample that consisted of 55 educational supervisors of the social education supervisors in Riyadh starting from the academic year 1433-1343 AH.The study concluded that the historical research skills are highly available for the history teachers except for the internal and external criticism skill that was available moderately. In the light of that, a training program was designed for the secondary stage history teachers, and it was based on developing the historical research skills. The study concluded to the importance of  developing the historical research skills of the history teachers in order for the different educational stages students to acquire the scientific research skills, in addition to the importance of enhancing the history course with several historical images, time maps, and various documents that the student can use in addition to the activities based on analyzing and interpretation.

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