Teacher's Effort in Improving Historical Writing Skill by Presenting Historian as Resources Person on Historical Learning

摘要

Educational world has long demanded History teacher to abandon teacher-centered learning approach (expository), but the fact says that most of the teachers are reluctant to abandon the conventional approach. Therefore, the use of lecture method often dominates the delivery of historical learning. It is not surprising that History is suspected as a boring and uninteresting subject. The condition encourages researcher to observe History teacher at public senior high school in Bandung who use historians as their learning resources and implementing student-centered learning approach through action research which is studied in natural setting by the researcher to answer research questions related to teacher's effort in designing learning, syntax of design implementation in utilizing the historians, thrust and obstacles along with its implementation. Research methodology used is naturalistic inquiry. The research findings describe teacher's effort in implementing student-centered learning to overcome the problems of boredom and undesirable on History subject as well as the impact or result of the teacher's effort with learning material on students' Historical writing skill.