The THE GUIDELINES OF MUSEUM-BASED LEARNING FOR SUPPORTING HISTORICAL THINKING SKILLS FOR SECONDARY STUDENTS

Abstract

The objectives of this research article were: 1) to study current situation of learning management for supporting historical thinking skills for secondary students. To study guidelines of learning management for supporting historical thinking skills for secondary students. It was qualitative research. The researching information from textbooks, academic research and focus group discussion and in-depth interviews. There are 31 key informants such as the students in Mathayomsuksa 3 at Banyangmuang School, curator, experimental teachers, and university lecturers by using the purposive selection method. The research instruments were in depth interview questions and focus group discussion questions. Analyzed content and descriptive writing.

          The research results were as follows; 1) the results of current situation of learning management for supporting historical thinking skills for secondary students were that learning management was followed basic education core curriculum. The teaching methods were lecture, using historical method and media instruction for learning activity. Teacher’s roles were that teachers prepared for teaching, were good attitude open minded and approved the student’s opinions. Student’s roles were listeners and sometimes responding the questions in the classroom. The students saw that history was far away from themselves which resulted boredom and lack of learning incentive. 2) The result of guidelines of learning management for supporting historical thinking skills for secondary students were that museum should be the learning resource science for promoting thinking process of students by using varieties of activities such as questioning, using learning activities packages and teaching through historical method. Teacher’ roles were analyzing the purposes of museum, designing activities by participating between teacher and museum’s authority. The student ‘roles were active learner, asking questions, data inquiry, raising the interesting topic and summarize the knowledge by themselves.