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The document discusses the definition and interpretation of history, how facts from primary sources can be utilized to understand historical events, and challenges in interpreting the past due to differing accounts and perspectives. It emphasizes the importance of critically evaluating competing interpretations and understanding history from multiple perspectives.

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Multi Perspect I Vity

The document discusses the definition and interpretation of history, how facts from primary sources can be utilized to understand historical events, and challenges in interpreting the past due to differing accounts and perspectives. It emphasizes the importance of critically evaluating competing interpretations and understanding history from multiple perspectives.

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Making Sense of the Past:

Historical Interpretation
RACHEL ANN M. SURLA
CONTEMPORARY DEFINITION
HISTORY- its more on how it impacts the present
through its consequences.

Geoffrey Barraclough- study of history on the basis of


fragmentary evidence.
- history is what we read, though based on facts is NOT FACTUAL AT
ALL---- rather a series of accepted judgments.
- HISTORICAL JUDGMENTS of historians as to how history should be
seen is the BASIS OF HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION.
CODE OF KALANTIAW
BEFORE PRESENT
Source of pride of - Considered a HOAX
AKLAN (a historical (1968) by William
marker in Batan, Aklan Henry Scott
was made.
HOW TO UTILIZE FACTS?
1. collect facts from primary sources
2. draw your reading so that intended
audience will understand the historical
event. (making sense of the past)
ISSUE AS TO UTILIZATION OF FACTS
-not all primary sources are accessible to a
general audience, and without the proper
training and background, A NON-
HISTORIAN interpreting a primary source
may do more harm than good---a primary
source may even cause
misunderstandings.
INTERPRETATIONS OF THE PAST
- vary according to
who reads the primary
source, when, and
how it was read.
So, what’s the challenge on our part?
1. we must be well equipped to recognized
different types of interpretations.
2. Why these interpretations may differ from
each other
3. How to critically sift these interpretations
through HISTORICAL EVALUATION.
HOW TO TRACK CHANGES
TO UNDERSTAND THE
PAST?
Let’s do HISTORICAL
EVALUATION!
THINK-PAIR-SHARE
SA AKING MGA KABABATA by Jose Rizal

“Ang hindi magmahal sa kanyang salita/ mahigit


sa hayop at malansang isda.”
HISTORY AS A CONSTRUCT
Things in the past that are true that are considered today
as no longer true.
This will give us the idea that HISTORY IS SUBJECT TO
INTERPRETATION.

What will you do with competing accounts of the past?


CONCLUSION:
Competing accounts can impact our view of history and
our identity. This needs our attention.
It is important to do EVALUATION and not to limit it to
primary sources.
It is important to EVALUATE historical interpretations
PURPOSE: to ensure that the current interpretation is
reliable to support our acceptance of events of the past.
MULTIPERSPECTIVITY
This is a way of
looking at events,
personalities,
developments,
cultures, and societies
from different
perspectives.
HISTORICAL WRITING
Is biased, partial, and contains pre-
conceptions.
Historian decides on what sources to use
What interpretation to make more
apparent, depending on what his end is…
Let’s critique historical writing…
What’s is wrong when
historians look at the evidence?
What’s wrong when
historians look at the subject?
So, what’s the role now of
multiperspectivity?
1. We will understand that historical interpretations contain
discrepancies, contradictions, ambiguities, and are often the focus
of dissent.
2. Multiperspectivity requires incorporating materials that reflect
different views of an event in history--- so it means there’s a lot
more room to investigate. Thereby providing for more evidence
for those truths that the sources agree on.
3. It renders more validity to the historical scholarship.
4. It provides for the audience a more complex, but also a more
complete and richer understanding of the past.

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