TEACH HISTORY WITH FILM: A LITERATURE REVIEW AND A HISTORICAL FILM ANALYSIS
Keywords:
teaching history, film, benefits, best practiceAbstract
Teaching students about historical events and being critical about them is still a challenging task for some teachers. Teaching history with films offer a different challenge for teachers and students to learn history, however if films are used merely as entertainment in a history classroom, it will lead to uncritical and inaccurate view of the past and reinforce students’ historical misconceptions. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to review the benefits and best practice of teaching with historical film. This study provides a historical film analysis Mongol as reference for teacher’s best practice of teaching history with film.
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